Scientists have made a “once-in-a-century” discovery in Pompeii after unearthing a stunning ancient luxury spa with thermal baths and mosaic designs.

With rooms for cold, hot, warm baths, and a plunge room, this discovery is one of the largest private bathhouses found at Pompeii. After a nearly two-year excavation, archaeologists also discovered ...

At 8.05pm, the eruption finally ceased - but an earthquake may have killed any of Pompeii's survivors, another study concluded. After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of human activity.

When the a.d. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius blanketed the southern Italian city of Pompeii […] ...

The pyroclastic flow that hit Pompeii was so hot that it caused almost instantaneous death, frying people in place. The ash then settled around their bodies, which were covered in more ...

which destroyed both the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The bodies belonged to a woman, who was clutching jewelry and coins, and a young man in his teens or early 20s ...

In a study published Wednesday in Current Biology, researchers detail how DNA samples from Pompeii’s plaster body casts reveal surprises about sex, family ties and the origins of those who lived there ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

The famous Pompeii "bodies" may make the biggest impact, but the less startling objects — the keys, the forks, the frying pans, the vases, the inkwells, even what appears to be a petrified loaf ...

However, the excavation also revealed a darker side of life in Pompeii. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried the city and its 11,000 inhabitants under volcanic ash. Three bodies were ...