For the past two decades, the LGBT movement has been busily engaged in the task of queering history. Not only have they ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

EXCLUSIVE: This unique city is the 'soul of our seafaring nation', offering 800 years of British maritime history to explore.

In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel ...

A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

Pompeii, a name synonymous with a moment frozen in time, continues to yield incredible secrets, two thousand years after ...

Archaeologists uncovered disturbing details about a Pompeii family's fight for survival during the destructive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The Pompeii Archaeological Park announced the ...

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 figures adorn the wall of a tomb found in a necropolis near one of Pompeii’s city gates. Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in ...

In another, a figure makes an acrobatic offering of wine, the libation flowing behind him from a drinking horn. At the center of the frieze, next to Dionysus’ companion Silenus, stands a woman.

Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder side of the ancient Romans. An extremely rare frieze known as a “megalography,” or painting with life-sized figures ...

Discovered in 1909, the Mysteries frescos feature Dionysus and his bride Ariadne surrounded by an entourage of bacchantes, fauns, and winged figures who are engaged in various rites.