Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

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

Ancient rhinos lived in tight-knit herds and died together at Nebraska’s Ashfall Fossil Beds, study of teeth reveals ...

The animals were slowly killed by ash falling from the Yellowstone supervolcano, but it preserved their bodies and has ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii's main ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii uncovered a life-size funerary relief at the Porta Sarno necropolis, depicting a man and a woman ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.