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

Several horses recently discovered in a 2,000-year-old stable appear frozen in a failed flight to safety from the eruption of Vesuvius.

Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...

A LEGACY OF DISASTERS Pompeii has been a byword for catastrophe since 79 A.D., when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing most of the city’s inhabitants. After serious excavations began halfway ...

Herculaneum, like Pompeii, was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, but unlike its more famous counterpart, it is smaller and less excavated, offering a more intimate and less ...

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

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE buried Pompeii, a Roman city near Naples, along with nearby towns of Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Stabiae.

In the decades before the eruption of Vesuvius, Zuchtriegel went on, there was a fashion in the Roman Empire for Greek-language performance, which was established by the emperor Nero, who ruled ...

From prehistoric sunscreen to a brain that turned to glass, we've learned some surprising new facts about human history ...

Leading 1986's Tinderbox, Siouxsie and the Banshees' 'Cities of Dust' reaches into history to explore the terror of Mother ...

The artifact, found off the coast of Italy, is believed to depict a larger-than-life male torso, archaeologists said.

NOTHING quite says “relaxation” like sailing through the Mediterranean, cocktail in hand, soaking in the coastal views. But ...