An ancient Roman erotic mosaic depicting a half-naked couple has returned to Pompeii more than 80 years after it was stolen ...

An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on Tuesday.

A mysterious residue inside a set of ancient Greek pots from Paestum, Italy, has now been identified as honey thanks to ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park via AP "What was depicted on the wall of an ancient Pompeian house could be a distant ancestor of the modern dish," said experts at the archaeological park in a statement.

Archaeologists in Pompeii recently unearthed the well-preserved remains of two people believed to have died in an earthquake that accompanied the infamous volcanic eruption there almost 1,500 ...

Italian archaeologists digging in Pompeii uncovered a 2,000-year-old fresco featuring what looks remarkably like a modern-day pizza– and some believe it might actually be a direct ancestor of ...

Colums frame the "peristylium," or courtyard, in the center of the Ancient Roman Domus Vettiorum, House of Vettii, in the Pompeii Archeological Park, near Naples, southern Italy, December 14, 2022.

Pompeii’s archaeological puzzles can be solved with a little help from chemistry Even after a century wrapped in plaster, remains show that certain victims very likely died of asphyxiation.

Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street ...

Pompeii, Buried for Centuries, Yields New Finds Conservators in Italy have turned up discoveries at the site of Pompeii, the city beset by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D.