Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

Canberra Symphony Orchestra will be kicking off their 2025 programme in style on Thursday night. Sleeping Stories at the ...

A room-sized, 3D diorama at the National Archeological Museum of Naples in Italy, depicts the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

A nearly life-size fresco just discovered in Pompeii depicts the initiation rituals of the mystery cult of Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy. The fresco was over 100 years old when the ...

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the fire. Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, a new study confirms. By Franz Lidz Five years ago Italian researchers ...

Fausto Puglisi offered a grand tour of Pompeii in his latest collection for Roberto Cavalli presented Thursday during Milan Fashion Week. The opening look of fiery devore velvet giving way to ...

Along with Pompeii, the ancient settlement was obliterated in 79AD when the volcano erupted, killing thousands and burying both under a thick layer of volcanic material and mud - preserving them ...

Rome (CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...