Ancient Roman forces may have used the polybolos to quell a rebellion at Pompeii in 89 B.C.E. The unique weapon was likely ...

LONG before Pompeii’s residents were killed by molten rock blasting from Mount Vesuvius they faced another fast-moving threat ...

Long before Pompeii was covered in ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, the people of the doomed city were confronting a threat of a very different kind.

POMPEII, Italy — More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first time Thursday in a permanent exhibition. The casts, which ...

Pompeii, Italy (AP) — More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first time Thursday in a permanent exhibition. The casts, ...

Brought back to the Valley by popular demand, “Pompeii — The Exhibition” closes at the Arizona Science Center on Sunday, ...