Pompeii has been many things over the centuries. It's been "a vineyard, a treasure trove, a den of bandits and today it remains an archaeological gem 'exposed and vulnerable,'" according to the new ...

Life in Pompeii has long captured imaginations since Mt. Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago, coating the Italian city in ash and soot—yet, remarkably, not entirely destroying its striking art and ...

For centuries poets and artists have offered the labyrinth as an emblem of violence and frustrated urges, whether lust, love or mere curiosity. In an almost hallucinatory passage in Book Two of the ...

The Schopin painting, like the overall exhibition, took its apocalyptic title from that of a highly popular 1834 novel by British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton that contrasted tales of love and virtue ...

Last week, the House of the Gladiators in world-famous Pompeii collapsed, setting off fresh debate about whether the World Heritage Site is being neglected. The collapse was "thanks to some ...