look through these gut-wrenching photos of Pompeii bodies frozen in time. Or, discover the surprisingly raunchy story of ancient Pompeii graffiti.

Tomb at Pompeii with graffiti painted in red. Ancient garbage was found surrounding this tomb. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder side of the ancient Romans. An extremely rare frieze known as a “megalography,” or painting with life-sized figures ...

Within two days Pompeii had vanished ... a theory that had been fueled by the 2018 discovery of a scrap of graffiti on a wall of the site’s freshly excavated House of the Garden.

Vesuvius’ eruption has preserved Pompeii in its final moments. The wealth of archaeology that has been unearthed over the past few centuries here is extraordinary. From gladiator graffiti to ...

This is one reason why archeological sites like the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum are so important: they preserve the living spaces, shops, tools, and graffiti of the common people that would ...

Indeed, Roman graffiti was often extremely rude, and there was a lot of it; in Pompeii alone more than 11,000 examples survive. One pithy epigram reads: "I'm amazed, oh wall, that you have not fallen ...