The Pompeii exhibition at the National Museum uses immersive audiovisual elements alongside artefacts to show attendees what ...

In recent times areas around Naples have seen a flurry of activities as government agencies conduct drills to make citizens ...

In A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted in one of the largest and deadliest volcanic events in history ... was in fact Roman Pompeii. A plaster cast of a horse killed during the eruption is the ...

Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...

Latest international blockbuster at National Museum of Australia takes visitors on a journey to famous ancient city with incredible large-scale ...

Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about the people and their relationships ...

But the so-called "unluckiest person in history" briefly did, as it appeared to archaeologists like he had been hit in the head with a gigantic boulder as he attempted to flee from the eruption.

Recent research may have reshaped our understanding of the victims of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. For centuries, archaeologists and ...

Vesuvius eruption that literally froze Pompeii in stone. But the cause of those dinos' demise was likely much more mundane - collapsing animal burrows, according to a study in the Proceedings of ...

Felt the call of Ancient Egypt all around you this year? You wouldn’t have been the only one. While Australians have long ...

The volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii almost 2000 years ago is the subject of a major immersive exhibition at the ...