While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., archaeologists recently uncovered drawings of an intense gladiator battle on a ...

It is not the other Pompeii, the ancient and very sad city inhabited by slaves, revealed a year ago, but the real Pompeii ...

In the ancient city of Pompeii, a newly excavated tomb revealed ... Archaeologists also noted the carved accessories on the wife’s body, according to the releases, along with the elaborate ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

"It was quite a surprise to find it there a few centimeters beneath the ground." Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis, right beneath the main entrance gate to Pompeii, just uncovered a ...

“Both the bodies and heads of the well-to-do young ... They will be displayed during this month’s exhibition Being a Woman in Ancient Pompeii, which opens April 16.

A near life-sized funerary relief of a couple emerged during an archaeological excavation at a monumental tomb in the Porta Sarno necropolis of Pompeii. The two high-relief sculptures were ...

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...