Since 1863, archaeologists have made more than 100 plaster casts, which show how victims died after Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...
More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first ...
Long before Pompeii was covered in ash and pumice during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, the people of the doomed ...
Heritage is at the heart of a wine making project in Pompeii that is aiming to re-establish the southern Italian volcanic ...
A new permanent exhibition at Pompeii tells the full story of the ancient city’s destruction through casts, and accessible ...
Pompeii didn't begin with the Romans. It was fundamentally an Oscan city, also influenced by the Etruscans and Greeks.
In 89 BCE, when the residents of Pompeii rebelled against Rome, the Empire pulled no punches in its attempts to quell the ...
Gianfranco Rosi assembles a beautiful mosaic of modern lives, anxieties and tensions in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius ...
Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of ...
Everybody talks about Pompeii, but its sister city may offer an even better glimpse into the past. Here's how this ancient ...
The price of covering a room in the prized pigment was equal to between 50% and 90% of a Roman legionary's annual salary, a ...