Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...

For centuries, the tragedy of Pompeii has captured the human imagination and has stood out as one of humanity’s darkest moments, when pumice and ash fell from the sky and the land was choked by a ...

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

The theft from Napoleon's collection at the Louvre's Apollo Gallery continues to spark debate. While the Parisian police ...

The seat is across from the entrance to the Villa of the Mysteries, a large property full of beautiful frescoes located just ...

Archaeologists have discovered the exceptionally well-preserved remains of two men scalded to death by the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, the Italian ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, burying Pompeii under some 30 feet of ash. But Pompeii's story didn't end there, according to fresh findings highlighted by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the ...

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

Among those canonised were Saint Ignatius Maloyan, an Armenian archbishop martyred during the 1915 genocide; Saint Peter To ...

According to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the new set of saints to be canonized was approved ...

May their intercession assist us in our trials and their example inspire us in our shared vocation to holiness,' the pontiff ...