A study found some Pompeii victims died while wearing wool, complicating the eruption date of Mount Vesuvius, long believed ...

Christina Purdie, 27, was last seen alive at the end of May, more than two months before a city Department of Transportation ...

Police have identified the skeletal remains of a woman who was found near the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Brooklyn over the summer. The woman has been identified as ...

Purdie’s remains were discovered by a city Department of Transportation worker just off the Jackie Robinson Parkway near ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing ...

Archaeologists uncover vivid frescoes, new rooms, and ancient garden traces at the Villa Poppaea linked to Nero's wife near Pompeii.

We've ranked the most interesting archaeological finds of all time, ranging from the intricate ruins of Machu Picchu to the ...

Archaeologists found a nearly complete peahen fresco, missing its head, dating to the mid-first century B.C., that may have belonged to Poppaea Sabina, the second wife of Emperor Nero.

New research finds that at least four individuals who died in the eruption were wearing woolen tunics and cloaks, which ...

New frescoes with "extraordinary details and colours" and new rooms have been unearthed in a villa on the suburbs of the ...

Despite the fact that Mount Vesuvius triggered one of the most infamous ancient tragedies, not everyone agrees on exactly ...