The House of the Greek Epigrams was an impressive home in northeast Pompeii once decorated with lavish frescoes. It was ...

It was AD 79 when the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under layers of ash ... Look up to see a fresco of the hunter Actaeon being devoured by his own dogs.

The museum is home to Pompeii’s finest art and artifacts, including a display (in the “Secret Room”) of erotic frescoes that were considered so bawdy that by the time they made it here ...

Ironically, the ash that had destroyed Pompeii also ensured its preservation, leaving it frozen in time. As a result, its ruins offer the best look anywhere at life in an ancient Roman town, with its ...

POMPEII, Italy — The world-famous Pompeii archaeological park introduced on Friday a daily limit of 20,000 visitors, the latest Italian tourist hotspot to take action against overcrowding. The ...

Frescoes in the Criptoporticus Domus at Pompeii - Copyright AFP Richard A. Brooks Frescoes in the Criptoporticus Domus at Pompeii - Copyright AFP Richard A. Brooks ...

This page may contain affiliate links - this means that if you buy something as a result of clicking on a link I’ll receive a small commission. Thanks! Visiting Pompeii, the ancient Roman city in ...

The world-famous Pompeii archaeological park introduced on Friday a daily limit of 20,000 visitors, the latest Italian tourist hotspot to take action against overcrowding. The "experimental ...

The world-famous Pompeii archaeological park introduced on Friday a daily limit of 20,000 visitors, the latest Italian tourist hotspot to take action against overcrowding. The "experimental" scheme ...

Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster ... and the plaster casts could have been “creatively restored” in the past, the study authors ...

Pompeii’s “Two Maidens” may have been young gay lovers. Credit: Claus Ableiter / CC BY-SA 3.0 Around 2,000 years ago, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, two people in the ancient city of Pompeii held onto ...