Its size was uncommonly small compared with others found in Pompeii, including some situated ... The snakes were positioned ...

In the city of Pompeii, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient tiny house that, while small in size ... The snakes frame an altar where offerings would have been placed, according to the ...

That’s what began to fall on Pompeii.” At first, the choking rain of ash and small pumice stones wasn’t lethal. An estimated 80 percent of Pompeii’s residents likely fled to the safety of ...

In the wake of the midsized earthquakes that struck Pompeii in 62 C.E., the city ... When it was excavated in the 1980s, archaeologists found 50 small ceramic pots containing pigments and ...