One moment, Pompeii was alive with trade and laughter. The next, it was frozen in ash - a Roman city caught in the grip of nature’s fury.

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings scattered all over the place, ...

From the city’s waterfront you can get a good look at the still-active Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum ... during a presidential visit. The waiters at Trattoria ...

There are lots of tours that let you visit Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius and Herculaneum in one day, but that seems very rushed to me. We did it in two days – one full day for Pompeii and another where we ...

Roman aristocrats, including the emperor Augustus himself, would travel by horseback or wagon ... when excavations in Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Roman towns buried by an eruption of Mount ...

In a landmark project, scientists use AI and X-rays to uncover texts of ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried by the eruption of ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, would change the way many thought of Pompeii.

A famous natural disaster Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79. It buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under a rapidly moving flow of rock and ash called a pyroclastic flow. Many bodies ...