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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the achievements of the ancient Roman Empire still acclaimed today, historians list things like aqueducts, roads, legal ...

In early January, Italian archaeologists announced the discovery of a sizable Roman villa in Bacoli (ancient Bauli) along the Bay of Naples. The city sits to the west of Naples and was famed in ...

Mt. Vesuvius is erupting, Pliny the Elder just said. On Twitter. Destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman town of Pompeii was buried deep beneath ash and preserved ...

Pliny the Elder’s Natural History was left uncompleted when he died trying to rescue friends from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. But the Roman scholar’s encyclopedic work still stands as the most ...

A skull discovered almost a century ago on a shore near Pompeii might, just might, be that of Roman naturalist and military leader Pliny the Elder, new research finds. The jawbone associated with that ...

Certain beers stand out in the crowd. They aren’t necessarily the rarest or even the most sought-after options. Scrolling through an Instagram feed and seeing a glamour shot of one of their bottle’s ...