NAPLES, Italy — Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special police unit, have been unveiled for the first time in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, in ...

THE resurgence of postwar Italy has been reflected in a brisk resumption of archaeological research and excavations, especially in the South, where work has been proceeding with an intensity ...

A Pompeiian style fresco from Herculaneum titled "Young Hercules and the snake", dated to the I second A.C., is seen on display among other archaeological artifacts stolen from Italy and sold in the ...

The beach at the Herculaneum archaeological park, located in the southern Italian region of Campania, opened on Wednesday after a multi-year restoration project. "Today, after three years of intensive ...

It’s a peculiar historical quirk that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE which destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum also created one of the most detailed portraits of the ancient world ...

The Herculaneum Scroll was discovered in the 1700s. It had been buried in volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius, which carbonized the scrolls and made them impossible to open. The Vesuvius Challenge offers ...

On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of ...