It appears to be a young woman with her hair in a bun. She is face down, her head is resting on her right arm, and her left hand appears to be trying to cover her mouth. The folds of her clothing ...

The Pompeii Art Festival, from September 22-24, will feature a program ranging from music to cinema and from art to photography. Pompeii is the world capital of street art. The Municipality of Pompeii ...

Cutting-edge technology is being utilized in one of the world’s great ancient ruins. A canine robot named Spot, built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinoff engineering and robotics ...

You gather up your dirty clothes, wash them, dry them and put them away. Although routinely put off, laundry is a habitual task and, as archaeologists in Italy were recently reminded, also a very old ...

From high above southern Italy, the ruins of Pompeii stretch out like a frozen moment in time. Ancient streets, crumbling villas, and grand theaters still sit beneath the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, the ...

One of the most famous ancient cities in all of Italy is the ill-fated city of Pompeii. The city and its residents were covered in hot ash and pumice stone after an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ...

One of the most intriguing stories of the past 2,000 years is that of Pompeii. You might remember from history classes that the city was engulfed by a smothering wave of ash and deadly gases during an ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — A fast-food eatery at Pompeii ...

Archaeologists in Italy excavated a 2,000-year-old city block and found a converted laundry shop and other ruined building, photos show. Photo from the Pompeii Archaeological Park You gather up your ...