Two relief sculptures of a man and a woman have just been discovered during excavations of a tomb in Pompeii. The sculpture of the young spouse is particularly intriguing.

The Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii revealed ancient funerary carvings, shedding light on elite Roman women like a priestess devoted to Ceres.

Hundreds of ancient Greco-Roman sculptures and paintings, many discovered amid the ruins of the ancient towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, are on display at the National Archeological Museum of ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city ...

ST. LOUIS – “Pompeii: The Exhibition” opens May 16 at the St. Louis Science Center, showcasing nearly 150 artifacts recovered from the ancient city of Pompeii. The exhibition will feature a ...

The House of Phaedra appears to prove that tiny houses - those without an atrium - were as richly decorated as their grander neighbours.

Pompeii is a must-visit archaeological site in Italy. However, travel expert Rick Steves recommends a detour to Naples with ...

Archaeologists believe survivors were joined by others looking for a place to settle and hoping to find valuable items left ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering “lesser known” clues about rituals connected to the Greek god of wine, Dionysus, in the ...

The Buried City, penned by the first foreign and probably one of the youngest directors of Pompei’s archeological treasures, ...