Archaeologists uncovered two male bodies perfectly preserved in ash near Pompeii’s Civita Giuliana estate. Created using 19th-century casting techniques and modern imaging, the discovery reveals ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of ...

Mt. Vesuvius preserved the shapes of its victims at Pompeii. But while those shapes remain at the site today, bones and teeth are all that's left of the people inside.

Italy's Pompeii is the stuff of legend, conjuring images of humans huddled or sprawled as if in torment, forever encased in the massive cloud of hot ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 ...