Ten years ago, scientists discovered ancient hunting camps beneath the lake. Now, DNA samples from a submerged peat bog could ...

"Pompeii" at the National Museum of Australia brings together 90 artifacts and a recreation of Vesuvius's eruption.

The frescoes depict animals including chickens, waterfowl, partridges, and a wild boar, alongside baskets filled with seafood, including blue cod, squid, and shellfish.

Archaeologists at Pompeii discovered previously unseen frescoes in the colonnaded hall of a lavish private residence. The ...

sending a column of ash, lava, gas, and debris into the air, ranging between 49,000 and 98,000 feet: its furious wrath burned ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...

The column of ash may have hovered in the air for ... surge has emerged as a key factor in explaining what happened at Pompeii and Herculaneum in the next great eruption, 1,900 years later.

When the residents of Pompeii died in a shower of hot ash and rocks erupting from Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the volcanic material enveloped them and their vibrant city in a pyroclastic shroud.