The discovery began with an architectural puzzle: a staircase inside a Roman house that seemed to climb into empty air, its upper destination erased by time. That “stairway to nowhere” has now become ...
When excavators stepped into a half-finished living room in Pompeii, they were not just walking into a frozen renovation, ...
As many as 30,000 Romans fled the ruined region in A.D. 79. But some returned, a new study reveals, and the city limped on as a fragile, ashen shantytown. By Franz Lidz Of all end times tales, the ...