When Mount Vesuvius erupted In 79 AD it buried the booming city of Pompeii under tons of debris sealing the fate of more than a thousand people But It also sealed the ancient city preserved it ...
When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of ...
An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79, officials ...
(via SciShow) You've heard of Pompeii and the volcano that wiped it out, but how much do you REALLY know about this incredibly famous place? Turns out there are a lot of mysteries that researchers are ...
A recently unearthed fresco at a house in Pompeii shows a flatbread that could have been a precursor to pizza. Archaeological Park of Pompeii In a fresco found at Pompeii, a silver platter holds a ...
MILAN — A still-life fresco discovered recently in the Pompeii archaeological site looks like a pizza, but it's not, experts at the archaeological site said Tuesday. They noted that key ingredients ...
For excavations at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city famously frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 C.E., archaeologists have an unexpected new tool to use alongside trowels, ...
After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy. Archaeologists have discovered ...
After 20 years of restoration, Pompeii has reopened the House of the Vettii, allowing visitors to see its erotic frescoes in the richly painted villa for the first time in two decades. “You can stand ...