Discover what life was like in Gladiator: this is what Pompeii, its streets and the Colosseum would have looked like before ...

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of ...

A study published Thursday retold some famous stories about Pompeii citizens before they died from the eruption of Mount ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient ... from Harvard University and the University of Florence in Italy, relied on genetic material preserved for nearly two millennia. After Mount Vesuvius ...

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New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins were often incorrect, showing instead a diverse population with roots in the ...

Another Italian tourist site has decided to regulate its hefty traffic - this time the buried city of Pompeii, which is ...

Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional... When a volcanic eruption buried the Roman city of ... A ...

Among the inhabitants of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which disappeared after the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano, it ...

Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reported from Pozzuoli, Italy A piercing alarm burst from millions of cellphones, a signal to hundreds of thousands of ...

Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims. In 79 CE, the ...