BA-DUM. Ba-dum. Ba-dum. Ba-dum. What is it about Pink Floyd and heartbeats? An amplified heartbeat bookends their defining ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls. And ...

Pompeii—once a thriving city, frozen in time by disaster. We explore what remains today, uncovering haunting ruins, preserved history, and the stories of those buried alive by Mount Vesuvius.

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

It is not the other Pompeii, the ancient and very sad city inhabited by slaves, revealed a year ago, but the real Pompeii ...

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A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

For nearly two millennia, the lost city of Pompeii lay buried beneath layers of ash, preserved in extraordinary detail. Through the lens of a purpose-built camera, Pompeii is brought back to life in ...