A detail of a fresco showing a sea battle framed in Pompeii red topped by a basket and a mask that decorates the living room of house of the Vetti, in one of the wealthiest homes in Pompeii, the House ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists excavating a villa destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. have unearthed magnificent frescoes which ...

They may be nearly 6,000 miles apart and they may focus on material separated by thousands of years, but the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the Aspen Art Museum are coming together on a show.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando will welcome a one-of-a-kind exhibit this summer at the Orlando Science Center featuring artifacts from the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. “It’s a very unique exhibit because ...

Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii. Discovered inside what ...

Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of Pompeii archaeological park, described the dish as a possible “distant ancestor” of pizza Archaeologists in Italy have found a centuries-old painting that ...

The ancient Roman town of Pompeii sparks the imagination like few other historical sites do. Home to about 12,000 people, the town was destroyed in the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, at whose feet ...

Everywhere curator Frances Marzio turns in the 25,000-square-foot space that houses Pompeii: Tales From an Eruption — an exhibition in the making at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — she is ...

POMPEII, ItalyPOMPEII, Italy — A new project inside the Pompeii archaeological site is reviving ancient textile dyeing techniques to show another side of daily life before the city was destroyed by a ...