Across history, some of the world’s most advanced cities have vanished beneath ash, mud, water, and sediment. Unlike cities ...

Pope Leo XIV will travel to six destinations across Italy this year, the Vatican announced on Feb. 19, journeying from the shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii in the south to the tomb of St.

We may know Pompeii for its destruction, but this intricate 3D rendering brings to life what a bustling city it once was ...

Built by industrialist James Deering, Vizcaya Museums and Gardens is a 45,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion in Miami near ...

There's something almost magical about stumbling upon an object that's been untouched for decades, even centuries. A rusted ...

Pompeii has always felt strangely frozen in time. Streets halted mid-step. Meals left on tables. Bodies caught in their last movements. Mount Vesuvius erupted in late August, in the sticky heat of a ...

These figures stood in stark contrast to those the visitors had seen in the exquisite painting of a Dionysian initiation at a recent party in an opulent seaside villa. Holding a wine glass in one hand ...

EXCLUSIVE: Director Gianfranco Rosi’s award-winning documentary Pompei: Below the Clouds will be coming to U.S. theaters and to MUBI’s streaming platform in March. The film, shot in lustrous black and ...

The city of Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now reconstructed the city's water supply system based on ...

The true date of the eruption has long eluded—and vexed—historians of the deadly disaster. Here’s what the archaeological evidence tells us. The ancient city of Herculanum was destroyed by the ...