Since 1998, researchers have found evidence of over 50 cremation burials in the necropolis. The current excavation, called "Investigating the Archaeology of Death in Pompeii," has been ongoing ...

What’s fascinating is that this isn’t unique to Pompeii. In my new book, Mythica, which looks at the women not of Rome but of Bronze age Greece, I’ve found that new discoveries in ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments, offering glimpse the art of ancient Romans ... and the roughly 200 pots of unused paints found around Pompeii, recently ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii’s main gates. The sculptures were found inside a large funerary monument built ...

This produced the largest cache of pigments ever found in Pompeii, 150 pots in all, alongside other tools of the trade including stone pestles, scales, spatulas, and a whetstone. In a sign of work ...

A member of a climate activist group known for eye-catching attacks on cultural relics was found guilty by a jury of defacing the glass case protecting a priceless sculpture at an art museum in ...