"In the eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum ... where the French Angevin monarchy first settled, and it marks the geographic and, in some ways, the emotional heart of the city.

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as part of a funerary relief. Experts believe the couple depicted were of ...

The woman’s adornments suggest she was more important than the man, according to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. This, he said, could mean they were not married ...

Its objective was to analyze the composition of the pigments used in Pompeii from the 3rd century BCE until the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. Newly discovered frescoes in the House of Thiassus.