The destruction of Pompeii and the nearby coastal town of Herculaneum is undoubtedly history’s most storied natural disaster. The ancient Roman cities were buried under layers of volcanic rock ...

where the view on a clear day takes in everything from Capri and the Sorrentine Peninsula to the south, to modern-day Naples to the northwest, to Pompeii and Herculaneum, victims of the ...

It is the loot of raiders who for decades have targeted sites from classical antiquity in southern Italy, such as Pompeii and Herculaneum. Some even used underwater metal detectors, GPS ...

Historians noted that excavations of Pompeii, Herculaneum and other nearby sites ... NAPLES, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 05: Aerial view, from a helicopter, of the city with the Diego Armando Maradona ...

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The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

A young man was lying in bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory put forward by ...

It was Fiorelli who altered the view of Pompeii as a place of treasure ... as well as Chief of the excavations at Pompeii and ...

Dr Richard Miles follows in the footsteps of the 18th century archaeologists who discovered Herculaneum... To visit the incredible sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum as a tourist is incredible ...

No other place gives us such a sense of the ancient world as the narow streets of Pompeii and Herculaneum But what do these ruins really tell us How did the peope in the towns around Mt Vesuvius ...

The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli is where you'll find artifacts rescued from Pompeii and Herculaneum. The collection includes everything from Greek and Roman sculptures to intricate mosaics.