By then it was part of the Roman ... protect Pompeii's ruins. However, over time, excavation projects fell by the wayside and ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments ... But what materials did ancient Roman artists use to create these masterpieces? That question, and the roughly 200 ...

The ancient city of Pompeii in Italy was almost wiped off the map ... century CE but likely also in the whole of the Roman ...

The ancient Roman cities were buried under layers of volcanic rock and ash—frozen in time ... Pompeii’s serpents were unsullied by biblical associations; in ancient Italy, snakes meant ...

Pompeii's history reads like a Greek tragedy. Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil—the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius.