The ancient city of Pompeii is famous for housing over a thousand striking and unsettling figures of people frozen in time, preserved in ash for 2,000 years after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Now, ...

If it hasn’t become a meme yet, it soon will: there's an image floating around the web about a skeleton with a giant stone block sitting where its skull should be. The picture comes from new ...

A month ago, archaeologists at Pompeii announced the discovery of a new skeleton of a victim of Mt. Vesuvius whose legs and torso were sticking out from under an enormous stone block. The skeleton ...