Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ...
When excavators stepped into a half-finished living room in Pompeii, they were not just walking into a frozen renovation, they were entering a 2,000‑year‑old construction workshop that still held its ...
From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask themselves when gazing upon the enduring traces of one of the most beloved ancient ...
Dozens of grape vines have been planted amidst the ruins of Pompeii in a project to produce thousands of bottles of wine from grapes grown inside the archaeological site. Pompeii was buried in ...
Evidence of Roman engineering ingenuity is not in short supply. From Rome’s Pantheon to the Pont du Gard aqueduct in southern France to the Alcántara Bridge on the Iberian Peninsula, large-scale ...
An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...