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 ...

Finally, at about one in the afternoon on August 24, the mountain exploded ... perhaps choked by ash after landing on the beach near Pompeii.) Watching with him was his 17-year-old nephew ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...

Located near Naples and at the base of Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii was completely decimated ... For around 12 hours after that, the volcano expelled a mountain of ash and pyroclastic flow — a ...

(CNN) — Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii. Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, thousands of people scrambled to escape several small seaside towns.