More than four decades after it was completed, a museum built to house the relics of the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum finally opened yesterday (20 December) and is hosting an exhibition of ...

A bronze tap from a garden fountain, a street sign settling a boundary dispute, a clothes chest, a loaf of bread: some of the objects to survive the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 heading to the ...

Shimmering as if still lit by the Mediterranean sun, two Roman marble panels have been reunited at the British Museum for the first time in almost 2,000 years. Both come from a seaside mansion in ...

As a new exhibition of artefacts from Pompeii and Herculaneum opens at the British Museum, Martin Gayford visits the towns that Vesuvius destroyed - and preserved. Martin Gayford 25 March 2013 • ...

The first word found and translated from an unopened carbonized scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum was announced this week, as part of the $1,000,000 Vesuvius Challenge to read the papyri from ...

A major exhibition on the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, is being held at the British Museum in London. Here, senior curator Paul ...

More than four decades after it was completed, a museum built to house the relics of the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum finally opened yesterday (20 December) and is hosting an exhibition of ...

The British Museum’s stunning new exhibition transports the visitor back to the days before disaster struck the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum, says Richard Dorment. Richard Dorment 26 March 2013 • ...