Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special police unit, have been unveiled for the first time in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, in southern Italy.

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

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

Another as-yet-unidentified volcanic eruption in 1452-53 is thought to have been a key component of the ‘Little Ice Age’, ...

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