A growing number of researchers are turning to the Pompeii's graffiti to better understand the lives, humor and concerns of ...

Since 1863, archaeologists have made more than 100 plaster casts, which show how victims died after Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...

A carbonized papyrus scroll from Herculaneum, preserved by the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was read using advanced imaging and microscopy techniques. The decoded text describes Plato’s grave at ...

Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of Rome, may have been a mix of peoples from three continents ...

Director Gianfranco Rosi builds an intimate city portrait of Naples, filled with people leading bustling modern lives in the ...

After spending an exchange semester in Napoli, I became a total snob about the “holy trinity” of dough, moisture, and blistering heat; I thought my days of finding a truly transcendent crust ended the ...

A new permanent exhibition has opened in Pompeii that shows plaster casts of people killed in the Mount Vesuvius eruption, frozen in their final moments. On Thursday, curators put 22 ...

The first permanent exhibition of Pompeii’s historic casts is now on display in Italy, paying homage to those who were brutally killed after being engulfed by an inundation of volcanic ash. The ...

Casts of victims of Pompeii’s tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display together for the first time in a new permanent exhibition. The residents are captured in ...