Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, offers a priceless ...

A tourist has been busted carving his name on a wall in Italy’s ancient city of Pompeii. The man was stopped while engraving the letters ‘ALI’ in the House of the Ceii, an ancient villa that ...

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 man, who is from Kazakhstan, was reportedly caught red-handed damaging one of the ... who we thank for their promptness.' The Pompeii Archaeological Park says on its website that the House ...

Pompeii was a bustling Roman port on the Bay ... Niches in each wall – each highlighted in red – were intended to hold statuettes. But the room is unlikely to have been used for its intended ...

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

Much like the people of Pompeii, this fate preserved them in exceptional detail ... It shows its digestive tract (blue), ...

Courtesy of the MIC - Archaeological Park of Pompeii Experts believe some murals ... buildings with big balconies that had Pompeian red colors and geometric decorations of flowers and animals.

The trilobites perished on the spot — much like the people who were similarly entombed in ash at Pompeii in AD 79, during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. For 515 million years all evidence of ...