Pompeii was a thriving Roman city until the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE buried it beneath ash, rock, and ...

The plaster casts of Pompeii's victims have long stood as some of the most haunting reminders of the eruption of Mount ...

The Caltilius family resettled in Ostia – what was then a major port city to the north of Pompeii, 18 miles from Rome. There, they founded a temple to the Egyptian deity Serapis ...

The destruction of Pompeii is one of antiquity’s most famous disasters, but its exact date remains fiercely debated. From ...

Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

More than 1,900 years after Mount Vesuvius buried this Roman city in ash and pumice, researchers have used artificial ...

Archaeologists found the victim holding a terracotta mortar, which they interpret as an improvised attempt to shield his head.

Based on recent findings highlighted in the E-journal of the Pompeii Excavations, a man who died fleeing the volcanic destruction carried a bag of tools that indicate he was an ancient Roman doctor, ...

A man who died in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 had a medical kit with him when he perished, a new analysis of his body cast reveals. The medical kit indicates that he was ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it famously blanketed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in ash and volcanic debris. Based on historical records, researchers have long assumed the volcano ...

The AI-generated image shows a man with a look of fear and determination as he attempts to flee the deadly eruption of Mount ...

Now, researchers have found that the artefact one man clung onto in his last moments was an ancient “medical kit”. In a new study, archaeologists found a small case hidden among the remains of 13 ...