When the residents of Pompeii died in a shower of hot ash and rocks erupting from Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the volcanic material enveloped them and their vibrant city in a pyroclastic shroud.

drawing clues from the jewelry they wore and the rooms and company in which they were found. But analyses of DNA extracted from the bones and teeth of 14 Pompeii residents by an international team ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

All afternoon, workers of Tarrytown Jewelers, a jewelry store in Hartsdale ... see and smell their world': Remnants of 'Britain's Pompeii' reveal details of life in Bronze Age village 7 signs ...

This summer’s paper dated the presence of H. floresiensis back to 700,000 years ago. The team estimated that the individual—an adult—was just 3.28 feet (one meter) tall. The team further suggested ...

The "Ringed Lady" of Herculaneum is one of the most important discoveries from the ancient city that was buried by the ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Major tourist destinations announce visitor restrictions for 2025, including Venice's expanded entry fee and Pompeii's new daily cap Tourism surge driven by revenge travel, digital nomads and ...

Photo from the Penn Museum Other finds included “a stone bowl set into the brick floor of the shrine,” pottery fragments, ivory carvings and jewelry. “The condition and distribution of ...

A prime example is how aDNA research is reframing the way people understand the archaeological site of Pompeii, which remains trapped beneath a layer of ash thousands of years after Mount Vesuvius ...