Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion decorated the corridor wall outside of a theater.

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else.

Pompeii has long fascinated archaeologists and travelers alike, its ruins offering a vivid snapshot of Roman life paused by ...

A precious Egyptian vase has re-emerged in the ruins of Pompeii, in the so-called 'street food' area of antiquity, revealing unprecedented cultural and commercial links between the two civilisations.

MILAN, Italy — Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site in Italy announced Saturday the discovery of an intact ceremonial chariot, one of several important discoveries made in the same area ...

Two life-size funerary figures have been found in Pompeii that reveal the power, status, and public role of a Roman woman.

Researchers investigating the well-known House of Thiasus in Pompeii became fascinated with an unconnected stone staircase. A digital architectural reconstruction (based on features still present at ...

Fresh excavations in Pompeii have turned a buried construction workshop into a working laboratory, revealing how Roman builders actually mixed the concrete that has baffled engineers for generations.

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...