A British tourist was caught defacing the House of the Vestals in the ancient city of Pompeii yesterday, according to reports in the Italian press. The 37-year-old man was spotted carving his initials ...

Archaeologists excavating the site of Pompeii have uncovered an ancient building site, revealing Roman construction techniques used by builders at the time, according to the Italian Ministry of ...

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.

More buildings inside the ancient Roman city of Pompeii could collapse, Italy’s culture minister said Sunday, a day after a 2,000-year-old house once used by gladiators disintegrated into rubble. The ...

The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever frozen under ...

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask themselves when gazing upon the enduring traces of one of the most beloved ancient ...

The discovery began with an architectural puzzle: a staircase inside a Roman house that seemed to climb into empty air, its upper destination erased by time. That “stairway to nowhere” has now become ...

An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...