Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount ... the world's premier window on the people and culture of the Roman empire.

"Pompeii" at the National Museum of Australia brings together 90 artifacts and a recreation of Vesuvius's eruption.

The newly-uncovered fresco was found on a half-crumbled wall in what was the hallway of a house in Pompeii Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a painting which ...

Discovered within what has been called a "spectacular dining room" with unusual black walls, these frescoes provide an ...

archaeologists uncovered interconnected houses that were still undergoing renovation at the time of the eruption, offering ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The latest entry in their ongoing e-journal ...

This image provided by the Archeological Park of Pompeii shows cast number 25, made in 1929, from Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii. (Courtesy of MIC, Archaeological Park of Pompeii via AP) When a volcanic ...

A new project in Pompeii is combining traditional dyeing techniques with colourful frescoes, to revive the daily life in the ancient city before the eruption ... Dutch art sleuth recovers 6 ...

After the eruption, people from nearby towns tried in vain to find the buried city. Because Pompeii was a major port, people naturally searched for it near the sea. But the eruption had filled in ...

Immersive soundscapes and large-scale digital projections will transport visitors to the nearly 2,000-year-old Roman city before and after it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption. The tragic story ...