Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii following the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius that left the city in ruins, the director of the Italian site said on Wednesday.
The world-famous Pompeii archaeological park introduced a daily limit of 20,000 visitors on Friday in a bid to cut crowds and protect the site’s fragile infrastructure from overtourism.
Italy's famous Pompeii archaeological park said it would limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day from Friday, November 15th, in a bid to cut crowds and protect the site’s fragile infrastructure.
Pop superstar Madonna spent her 66th birthday at Pompeii and donated to a local theatre project supporting at-risk kids, the archaeological site said Saturday.
Victims who perished in Pompeii after the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have been killed by a simultaneous earthquake causing buildings to collapse, according to new research published on Thursday.
Archaeologists at the Pompeii site, in Italy's southern Campania region, said on Tuesday they had uncovered an ancient fresco depicting what may have been the precursor of modern-day pizza – but without cheese and tomatoes.
Archaeologists at Pompeii said on Tuesday that they had uncovered two more skeletons in the ruins of the ancient Roman city wiped out by a volcanic eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.
Pompeii archaeologists said Saturday they have unearthed the remains of a "slave room" in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.
An ornate Roman chariot has been discovered "almost intact" near Italy's buried city of Pompeii, the archaeological park announced on Saturday, calling it a discovery with "no parallel" in the country.
Decades worth of archaeological finds are back on public display in Pompeii from this week, in what the site's management called a "sign of great hope at a very difficult moment".
The remains of two victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago have been unearthed at a grand villa on the fringes of Pompeii, officials at the archaeological site said on Saturday.
Italy's famed archaeological site of Pompeii has launched a search for a new general director - and the job could go to a non-Italian for the first time.
One of the best preserved Roman houses at Herculaneum, near Pompeii, reopened on Wednesday after more than 30 years, its exquisite paintings brought back to life thanks to a revolutionary new technique.
A vivid fresco depicting an armour-clad gladiator standing victorious as his wounded opponent stumbles, gushing blood, has been discovered in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy's culture
ministry said on Friday.
UPDATED: Italy's culture minister has vowed to stop plans to build the 'Wheel of Pompeii', a giant Ferris wheel that would tower over one of Italy's most precious archaeological sites.
Archaeologists have just unearthed an inscription in Pompeii that suggests the Ancient Roman city might have been destroyed a full two months later than previously thought.
