Italy currently boasts an incredible 60 UNESCO World Heritage sites, which is more than any other country on the planet. They aren't all ancient ruins, either. The sites fall into a few categories.

Italy isn’t just renowned for its exceptional food and great fashion sense—it's also a living museum, home to more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country on the planet. For centuries, ...

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

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

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Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

Before the unification of Italy in 1870, the irregularity and deformity of the monuments inspired landscape settings with confected ruins across Europe from Potsdam to Painshill.

A general view of ruins of Herculaneum, near Naples, in October 2019. Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP Historic Italian town mulls ‘Venice-style’ entry fee to curb overcrowding, X-ray reveals Greek ...

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic eruption.

Recovering Herculaneum In the 18th century, archaeologists unearthed more than 1,800 papyri from the ruins of a Roman villa in Herculaneum. Before the professionalization of archaeology in the 20th ...

The mission is part of a huge scaling up of efforts to decipher the ‘Herculaneum scrolls’, burnt and buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, after text inside one of them was ...

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