In the popular imagination, the volcanic eruption that buried the ancient city of Pompeii alive, in just 25 hours, is often depicted as an apocalypse with no survivors. Popular TV shows like ...

The Ancient Roman room, thought to have been used as a shrine for ritual activities, is estimated to date back approximately ...

In 1877, the historian Frederic Harrison wanted to bury a legacy for the 29th Century beneath the UK's ancient monument.

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of more than 200 survivors from the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that swallowed up the Roman city of Pompeii in 79AD. University of Miami professor ...

It has been thousands of years since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius left the Roman city of Pompeii in ruins, but the ancient archaeological site continues to offer new findings. An ornate "blue ...

Trilobites are one of the most common fossils we know, but normally only their hard exoskeleton is preserved. Now, ...

“Everything brings us back to an everyday dimension that had rhythms in some ways very similar to our own modern lives,” says Pompeii archaeologist Dr Ausilia Trapani. “When you find the ...

“Upon entering the house one notices the impluvium bath which is made of fragments of amphorae set on edge, a common ...

Skeletal remains locked in eternal embrace found at a prehistoric archaeological site in central China dubbed "China's ...

The new trilobite fossils are Cambrian in age (around 509 million years old) and preserved as undistorted three-dimensional ...