The sale of an island just off the coast of Bacoli, near Naples, has pit the quest for a rich investor against a more ...

From ancient Roman structures under homes to Viking jewelry in a wetland, here are some of the latest archaeological ...

A room-sized, 3D diorama at the National Archeological Museum of Naples in Italy, depicts the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

Originally built in AD70 and then expended in AD90 – 120, London’s Roman basilica was a building unlike any other ... We have marked the location on a Google map at the end of this article. The barber ...

THE BODY of a Roman man buried face-down with a knife in his back - and missing his feet - has sparked mystery at the site of a huge, newly-unearthed fort. The eerie discovery was made in Spain ...

A nearly life-size fresco just discovered in Pompeii depicts the initiation rituals of the mystery cult of Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy. The fresco was over 100 years old when the ...

fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing at least 1,500 more. Volcanic debris “poured across the land,” wrote the Roman lawyer Pliny ...

Towns including Pompeii and Herculaneum ... preserved by the very accident that wiped them off the ancient Roman maps - gave historians a fascinating glimpse into life of the past.

Rome (CNN) — Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder ... In 186 BC, the Roman Senate banned the rites, known as Bacchanalia, on moral grounds, except in ...

“Through the eruption everything was destroyed but we are able to contemplate and admire the beauty of the Roman empire in Pompeii.”” The silhouettes advanced from no-nonsense denim and ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...