An entire block of Pompeii has now been uncovered, revealing a laundry and bakery, as well as the large private house. It's ...

With rooms for cold, hot, warm baths, and a plunge room, this discovery is one of the largest private bathhouses found at ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

The painting “The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” by English artist John Martin, depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Courtesy of John Martin via Wikimedia Commons   Despite ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

Near the footprint site, archaeologists uncovered burials in tombs covered with tuff slabs, some engraved with decorations. Most of the burials belong to children.

burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis, and Stabiae under ashes and rock fragments, and the city of Herculaneum under a mudflow. Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy, is the only active ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD, has unearthed a new treasure -- a private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago, decorated with sumptuous mosaics and equipped with a series ...

At Pompeii, private baths of this scale appear ... Elisabetta Povoledo is a reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region. She has been a journalist for 35 ...

But Pompeii is the gift that just keeps on giving ... Laundries in ancient Italy famously used urine as their key active cleaning ingredient – and this was a decent-sized laundry with a massive ...

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