Discover what life was like in Gladiator: this is what Pompeii, its streets and the Colosseum would have looked like before ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

New DNA analysis challenges existing hypotheses about the identities and relationships of victims found in Pompeii after the ...

The excavations taking place in the Roman city, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius, reflect the beauty and sophistication of ...

Plymouth in Montserrat was once the capital of the Caribbean island, and a popular tourist destination, but a volcanic ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

A study published Thursday retold some famous stories about Pompeii citizens before they died from the eruption of Mount ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

This new study probed the DNA evidence that has been taken from some of these bodies. The team used the same strontium ...

"Pompeii: The Exhibition" opens Nov. 15 at Graceland, featuring a collection artifacts from the ancient Roman city that was ...

The archaeologists also found ritual offerings that were left behind when the 79 A.D. eruption took the lives of at least ...

Scientists have conducted a DNA analysis on the remains of the residents of Pompeii who perished during the eruption of Mount ...