Nearly 4000 years ago, and 1500 years before Pompeii was buried by volcanic ash, the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri was ...

To explore the site, the researchers drafted a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the fields of botany, architecture, ...

Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

Volcanoes are nature's most dramatic rocks, and while their eruptions can be awe-inspiring, they also pose serious threats to ...

Archaeologists discover a bench in Pompeii opposite the Villa of the Mysteries that reveals Roman social and political life.

A 2,000-year-old scroll from Pompeii reveals radical teachings by Stoic founder Zeno, reshaping views on ancient philosophy ...

The holidaymaker took the souvenirs from the Timanfaya National Park- a protected area in Lanzarote - several years ago.

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...

This second episode of a three-part series exploring the intertwined histories of Pompeii and Vesuvius investigates Europe’s most dangerous volcano, and retraces the eruption of 79 AD.

When pilgrims gather in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 19 to witness the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo, they will see not ...

When pilgrims gather in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 19 to witness the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo, along with six other blesseds, they will see not just the eleva ...

In Italy, a super volcano outside of Naples is stirring in a way it hasn't for centuries. And hundreds of thousands of people live right by it.