When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., burying Pompeii in ash and pumice, it preserved a peerless body of frescos as well as evidence of the city’s paint workshops. Two sites are of particular ...

Known as a "megalography" from the Greek for "large painting", the ... unknown," he said. When Vesuvius erupted, the spouting ash and rock helped preserve many of Pompeii's buildings almost ...

New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes Emily Hauser ...

Some pots of paint pigment found at Pompeii ... t inclined to waste their precious materials. But at Pompeii, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius stopped artists in the middle of their work, and ...

The band’s 1972 crowd-free concert movie captures their trippy transition from psych trailblazers to prog superstars ...

Researchers say the nearly life-size figures shed new light on life and religion in Pompeii, which was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. The discovery was made while researchers from ...

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

A column of volcanic matter 10 miles high burst out from Mount Vesuvius when it erupted ... Pompeii's residents were relatively wealthy. The remnants of it discovered previously suggest they ...

while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was preserved by the volcano's ash. It was not rediscovered until 1748.

Travelers to Pompeii uncover ancient artifacts and vibrant frescoes, revealing life before Mount Vesuvius erupted.

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...