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’, ...

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 ...

The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

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.

The bodies of 129 people have been confirmed at the site in the ... It is truly a battlefield," said Kristina Adler-Wölfl, ...