Some 2,000 years ago, an ancient Roman left a burnt offering at a household shrine in Boscoreale, a town just north of Pompeii, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. The ritual produced an ashy residue that ...

Researchers have recovered texts previously lost to history, revealing philosophical takes on ethics, the arts, human behavior and theology.

A team of scholars has used cutting edge technology to piece together sections of a 2,000 year-old scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which killed tens of thousands as it ...

A new study is the first to “pinpoint which fragrances were actually burned in Pompeian domestic cult practices,” archaeologist Johannes Eber says. Archaeological Park of Pompeii / Johannes Eber Some ...