Archaeologists have digitally reconstructed a house in Pompeii to show what life must have been like for a rich Roman banker 2,000 years ago. The Italian city was famously buried in volcanic ash —and ...

When we try to conjure images of the ancient city of Pompeii, we often think about the stark and tortured casts left over from one of Europe’s worst natural disasters. Over 1,000 people were killed ...

The field of Digital Archaeology is growing faster than most of us can even keep up with. In order to summarize some of the advances in the field, I am introducing a new Friday column that discusses ...

Thousands of years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying and burying the city of Pompeii in ash and stone. Researchers from Lund University have used a new branch of advanced digital archaeology to ...

The skyline of Pompeii may once have been dominated by towers symbolising power and wealth—early forerunners of the medieval structures that later loomed over Italian cities such as Bologna and San ...