It’s a place to have a spa day fit for an emperor. The largest private Roman bathhouse ever found in the ruined ancient city of Pompeii has been discovered recently by archaeologists under a pile of ...

Pompeii restores ancient vines through a scientific project that reconnects the archaeological site with its historic farming ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several new frescoes at one of Pompeii's most notable villas just after the site was officially opened to visitors.

A 2,000-year-old love note and an illustrated gladiator fight scene were among the ancient inscriptions recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii, the archaeological park announced this week. Thought of ...

Archaeologists have found a large wall painting in Pompeii that portrays scenes from the ancient Dionysian mystery cults that were popular in the classical world. This life-sized frieze, which is ...

A trip to Pompeii’s public baths meant taking a dip in water contaminated with sweat and urine – until the Romans took over and sanitation improved. It’s easy to think of ancient Pompeii as a typical ...

NAPLES, ITALY—ArtNet News reports that officials at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii have concluded that a looted fragment of a mural depicting Hercules as an infant wrestling a snake came from the ...

Researchers investigating the well-known House of Thiasus in Pompeii became fascinated with an unconnected stone staircase. A digital architectural reconstruction (based on features still present at ...

A newly excavated, ancient construction site at Pompeii, frozen in time after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, has allowed archaeologists to finally determine the methods used to make Roman concrete.

Inside a large house in a part of Pompeii called Regio IX, a team from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii unearthed a splendidly decorated dining room that eighteenth-century excavators had stumbled ...

Roman slavery looked a bit different than we tend to imagine. In fact, the latest finds from Pompeii suggest that some of the volcanically-preserved port city’s slaves savored delicacies like beans ...

The Villa of the Mysteries, a large Roman villa near Pompeii, is famous today for its detailed wall paintings that depict mysterious religious rituals. Archaeologists have uncovered a long bench on ...