The suddenness of Mount Vesuvius's eruption, has given us an incomparable look into Roman life 2,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have uncovered one of Pompeii’s largest and most elaborate private bathhouses. Complete with mosaic floors, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly 10,000 weapons, including guns and knives, were confiscated at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center last ...

Italian police have smashed a gang of ‘tomb raiders’ suspected to have stolen hundreds of ancient artefacts from sites across ...

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...

Human remains were found in a suitcase that was drifting in the East River in New York City, police said. The NYPD Harbor Unit discovered the remains near Governor’s Island, police said.

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum.

In fact, Hayden’s father and mother both lost custody of their baby son in 2016 after drug tests showed they had been using cocaine. That same year, police also found Hayden and his father in a motel ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even larger outburst, triggering a masse exodus from the disaster zone.

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological site of Dolní Věstonice in the Czech Republic in the 1920s, is considered ...