Archaeologists discover a bench in Pompeii opposite the Villa of the Mysteries that reveals Roman social and political life.

"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who ...

Volcanoes are nature's most dramatic rocks, and while their eruptions can be awe-inspiring, they also pose serious threats to ...

The Karwendelbahn cable car lifts visitors from Mittenwald’s valley (933 m) to the 2,244 m peak in minutes, revealing ...

Step into Rosengartenschlucht, a beautiful gorge near Imst in Tyrol, Austria. Carved by the Schinderbach River, this 1.5 km ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

A new exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., gives visitors a whiff, from “chocolate-y” to stinky blue cheese.

The procession of thousands of football tourists, arriving from everywhere, yesterday was not as happy as on the usual ...

Lauren Tarshis, author of the “I Survived” book series will visit Amarillo for her newest release, “I Survived the Dust Bowl, ...

We've been given the honour of travelling back in time again, to be chosen by the Emperor of the Roman Empire to build colonies out at sea in this eagerly awaited sequel.

To explore the site, the researchers drafted a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the fields of botany, architecture, ...

The Italian nuns canonized are Vincenza Maria Poloni, the 19th-century founder of Verona's Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, ...