Many people want to leave their mark on history, but scratching your initials into ancient structures at a UNESCO World Heritage Site isn’t the wisest way to do it. Thanks to one unnamed British ...

It’s late summer 2,850 years ago. A fire engulfs a stilt village perched above a boggy, slow-moving river that weaves though the wetlands of eastern England. The tightly packed roundhouses, built from ...

18:23, Sun, Apr 6, 2025 Updated: 18:24, Sun, Apr 6, 2025 Since its discovery in the late 16th century, excavations of Pompeii's ruins have continued to shed light on the city's incredible life before ...

ROME – Italian and French archaeologists have discovered four skeletons and gold coins in the ruins of an ancient shop on the outskirts of Pompeii, officials said Friday. The skeletons are those of ...

The skyline of Pompeii may once have been dominated by towers symbolising power and wealth—early forerunners of the medieval structures that later loomed over Italian cities such as Bologna and San ...

Amid the unearthed sculptures and grand artwork that display the affluence of the once-grand city of Pompeii before its destruction, there's a little drawing of the outline of a hand and some stick ...

A flock of grazing sheep is helping archaeologists to preserve the ancient ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was buried under metres of pumice and ash in the calamitous eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

In the 1950s, botanist Wilhelmina Jashemski identified traces of pollen, spores and plant fossils in the ancient city of Pompeii. The discovery suggested that the site had once been a lush, cultivated ...

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Check out the surprising find archaeologists made at famed ancient city. French archaeologist Henri Duday of National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), shows a Samnite tomb of the fourth century ...

There has been a chilling new Pompeii discovery that has revealed the true horror of the volcanic explosion. For one local Italian family, it was a day just like any other. Food was being prepared in ...

Police in Italy have reportedly seized eight helicopters following “dangerous” tourist flights over the preserved Roman city of Pompeii. An investigation by local prosecutors in Torre Annunziata, ...