Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps is the mightiest mass of ice in Europe. Covering a staggering 66 square miles (171sq km) it has always attracted ...

Nick Cave is to play a solo concert in the ancient amphitheatre of Pompeii on 19 July as part of a summer tour of Italy, with ...

Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...

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Archeologists at the site of Pompeii's volcanic eruption, which devastated the Roman city in 79CE, have revealed a detailed ...

Archaeologists working at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero’s grand palace in ancient Rome, have uncovered a rare and remarkable artifact: a large ingot of Egyptian blue, the world’s first synthetic ...

Set on a steep cliffside surrounded by terraced vineyards and terracotta-roofed buildings jutting out into the Gulf of ...

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is being used to decipher ancient historical scripts that were previously a mystery to archaeologists. Historically significant scripts such as China's Bone Oracle ...

Recent efforts to update a gas pipeline south of Naples have turned up a trove of ancient artifacts spanning thousands of ...

At Pompeii, Italian archaeologists complete the biggest dig in a generation, where they strike gold and luxury in one of Pompeii’s richest homes. Show more The latest findings as the biggest ...

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Archaeologists have been given a new insight into what life in Pompeii was like after discovering a spa-like complex that has been described as a “once-in-a-century” find. What is thought to ...