In 79 AD, Pompeii is alive with noise, commerce, and spectacle - until Mount Vesuvius turns an ordinary day into a catastrophe. We move through the amphitheater, the forum, and the homes of rich and ...

Pompeii has always felt strangely frozen in time. Streets halted mid-step. Meals left on tables. Bodies caught in their last movements. Mount Vesuvius erupted in late August, in the sticky heat of a ...

Across history, some of the world’s most advanced cities have vanished beneath ash, mud, water, and sediment. Unlike cities destroyed by war, these were overwhelmed by forces far beyond human control, ...

Below the Clouds” and Werner Herzog’s “Ghost Elephants” offer thrilling but troubled visions of a world in environmental flux.

A scientist who figured out the secret behind ancient Rome's self-repairing concrete has recently confirmed his theory at a ...

Built by industrialist James Deering, Vizcaya Museums and Gardens is a 45,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion in Miami near ...

DePalma’s Italian Cafe on Broad Street in downtown Athens is closing Friday after 38 years in business.

Two cities steeped in history came together at the Mansion House last week as Dublin and Pompei signed a new […] ...

A buried seaside villa near Naples has yielded a painted room where frescoes show herons striding across black and red walls, ...

Scientists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) documented a number of changes inside Mexico's El Chichón volcano during monitoring between June and December 2025. El Chichón's ...

EXCLUSIVE: Director Gianfranco Rosi’s award-winning documentary Pompei: Below the Clouds will be coming to U.S. theaters and to MUBI’s streaming platform in March. The film, shot in lustrous black and ...

After over 45 years of business, Randy Bowe from Bowe Taxidermy is retiring. While he’s got a little more work to do before he closes shop, Fatima Avalos sat down with the taxidermist to talk about ...