It was AD 79 when the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under layers of ash during a two-day tempest. Today, the 66-hectare archaeological site offers visitors a snapshot of daily ...
POMPEII, Italy — The world-famous Pompeii archaeological park introduced on Friday a daily limit of 20,000 visitors, the latest Italian tourist hotspot to take action against overcrowding. The ...
Thanks! Visiting Pompeii, the ancient Roman city in southern Italy that was destroyed by a volcano, is on a lot of people’s travel bucket lists – it had been on mine since I was little! Before I ...
Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...
Pompeii’s “Two Maidens” may have been young gay lovers. Credit: Claus Ableiter / CC BY-SA 3.0 Around 2,000 years ago, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, two people in the ancient city of Pompeii held onto ...
LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Tops Friendly Markets welcomed shoppers back to its South Lockport store on Tuesday for the grand reopening. The project totaled nearly $4 million in renovations and is the ...
Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Elvis had a pompadour. Now the Graceland Exhibition Center has "Pompeii." A collection of close to 170 artifacts excavated from the famous ruins of the ...
Pompeii Archaeological Park is one of the most popular ancient tourist sites in the world, though a new mandate may be seeking to curb the effects of this popularity on the historic location.
Archaeological Park of Pompeii In the ruins of Pompeii, visitors aren’t only able to see the houses, frescos and artifacts of the ancient city’s people. They can also “see” the people ...
We tour this villa with Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the site Paintings on the ceiling that collapsed during the eruption of Vesuvius, discovered in new excavations taking place in Pompeii in ...
As of next week, no more than 20,000 people a day can visit Pompeii in a bid combat over-tourism. There will also be personalised tickets containing visitors’ full names from November 15 ...