Researchers believe that the town was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC by the Osci or Oscans. It came under the domination of Rome in the 4th century BC, and was conquered and became a Roman colony in 80 BC after it joined an...

The Odeon was a smaller roofed theatre, theatrum tectum, that sat 1500 spectators built in 80 BC. The theatre follows the plan of other Roman theatres and odeon structures. Where the Large Theatre was used primarily for staging drama,...

The remains of a horse wearing a harness have been discovered at the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, according to the BBC.

The Large Theatre was built into a natural hill in the second century BC. This theatre sat roughly 4,000 spectators. In the Greek style, the tiered seating extends from the orchestra carved out of the hillside. The Roman influence is...

New evidence has been unearthed in the case of the history's unluckiest man. Archaeologists searching the site of the man believed to have been crushed by a stone block during the Mt Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. have found the rest of...

Magma is building up in a chamber below Mount Vesuvius and smaller eruptions like the ones in 1944 or 1631 are hard to rule out.

This video explores five fun facts volcanoes.

This video is answering the question of what was the most famous volcanic eruption in history.

The Death of Julius Caesar...What does the saying "Beware the Ides of March!" mean? It refers to the day - March 15, 44 BCE - on which Gaius Julius Caesar, a one-time dictator of ancient Rome, was murdered. His grisly assassination was...

The Villa of the Mysteries is a well-preserved suburban Roman villa, famous for the series of frescos in one room, which are usually thought to show the initiation of a young woman into a Greco-Roman mystery cult. These are now probably...

Mount Vesuvius was responsible for the destruction of the city of Pompeii in 79 AD. Nearly everyone has heard one story or another about arguably the most well-known volcanic eruption in history, but how many of you know what really...

The discovery in the so-called 'street food' area of the ancient city of Vesuvius is evidence of its links with Eastern cultural and religious communities at lower-middle levels of society.

When Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August, 79 AD, Pompeii wasn't the only Roman city to be engulfed. Herculaneum was buried even deeper than its more famous neighbour, so its secrets are just beginning to be revealed....

Archaelogists at the Pompei site in Italy have made a dramatic new discovery. The skeleton of a man who was fleeing the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD and was crushed by a rock thrown into the air by the explosion.



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To this day, Pompeii’s famous ruins are a source of wonder and mystery to countless visitors.



However, it can be difficult to visualise how the ancient buildings appeared before the devastating...

Pompeii’s Antiquarium Museum has reopened after 36 years.



Its new exhibition includes a vivid audio-visual recreation of the moment the ancient city was destroyed in 79 AD, when Mount Vesuvius erupted burying Pompeii...

Pompeii’s director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, has been overseeing a project reviving ancient crafts and production techniques within the archaeological park.

A new project at the Pompeii archaeological site in Italy is bringing some of the city back to life.

In the quaint Belgian village of Herzele, a father and his son were taken aback when an artefact that had adorned their stairwell for half a century turned out to be a long-lost, highly valuable piece from Pompeii.

Fresco found on the wall of a house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii looks like a pizza.

While carefully sweeping away volcanic rock from one of the many homes in Pompeii, archaeologists found a fresco of a very familiar-looking food being served on a metal plate: a pizza.

The world-famous ruins of Pompeii still have many secrets for us to discover. Recent discoveries have been made thanks to The Great Pompeii Project, launched in 2012 to stop the deterioration of the archaeological site.

A new exhibit is showcasing incredibly rare wood and organic objects from the Italian town of Herculaneum, not far from Pompeii. The objects were buried when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Mud from the volcano covered the town, preserving...

If you visit the site Pompeii, you will notice that there is erotic art everywhere you look. A new exhibition titled 'Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii', aims to look at why the people of Pompeii were so fascinated with eroticism.