Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

By early 2015, the operation had swept up more than 140 suspects—tombaroli, illegal art dealers, and even some mafia members—in simultaneous dawn raids across 22 Italian provinces.

Before the eruption, which lasted for more than 24 hours and had the power of thousands of nuclear bombs, Mount Vesuvius had ...

Personal possessions such as shoes, suitcases, camp garments and works of art made by prisoners are on display ... visitors ...

An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

Arthur Brand, nicknamed the "Indiana Jones of the Art World," said the latest discovery was among his most significant.

This exhibition shows off the glitz and glamour of the period while presenting a subtler message about the role of royalty in ...

Adrian Heidenreich stumbled onto the first clue of an extraordinary collection of Native American ledger art in a Billings Heights art gallery in 1968.

One common misconception about the eruption of Vesuvius is that it happened suddenly and was over in an instant. But some experts suggest the events could have taken as long as seven hours.

When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’ Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation’s newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today ...

With their highly tuned eye for art and cultures other than their own, the Cartier brothers, Jacques, Pierre and Louis, also interpreted Japanese artistic traditions in the early 1900s.

The former playground of monarchs who prized it as a royal hunting ground, it later inspired 19th-century artists like Jean-Francois Millet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot of the Barbizon School.