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, ...

New evidence from Pompeii suggests Mount Vesuvius erupted in autumn, not summer. Victims wore thick wool clothing, better suited for cooler weather. This detail, along with other findings, reshapes ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vibrant red fresco during excavations of a villa believed to have belonged to Emperor Nero's second wife in Naples, southern Italy, according to local media.  The ...

The Pompeii Archaeological Park said the messages were identified during research campaigns in 2022 and 2025, with the ...

Amid the remains of a sumptuous villa near Pompeii, the hard-hatted conservationist scraped away centuries-old ash to reveal a vibrant red fresco.

Chemical records preserved in Pompeii’s public baths show how polluted well water shaped Roman bathing before aqueducts arrived.

Advanced imaging technology has revealed 79 new pieces of graffiti on a wall in the city's theater district. Until now, these inscriptions had been too faint for the human eye to see ...

The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI ...

A newly discovered Viking grave with severed skulls and rope-bound corpses has unleashed a bizarre mystery that has stunned historians. A giant with a hole in his head. Six severed skulls. Rope-bound ...