Pompeii News

Posted 1 hour, 56 minutes ago at 6:00 am. Cole Weller, Emalee Foote and Henry Weller collected their prizes Tuesday afternoon at the depot.

Posted 33 minutes ago at 9:14 am. Patty Booth, owner of Booth's Country Florist and a Chamber of Commerce member, is shown with one of the two three-foot towering gift baskets of childrena s toys that will be given away this Saturday during the Dowagiac Old-Fashioned Christmas Celebrationa s Open House Weekend, Nov.

November 4, 2009-- Just as some people today believe a Maya calendar pinpoints 2012 as the end of the world as we know it, some ancient Romans saw the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius , as a sign of a coming apocalypse.

The coffin of Egyptian priest Djehutymose is one highlight of the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology's collection.

As I made my way through Italy, I failed miserably at this. Decked out in ugly, practical walking shoes, a messenger bag bulging with various maps, funny little earpieces with a big black receiver that hung around my neck to hear our tour guide with, and my camera always held at the ready and clutched protectively in my hand, I looked like the ...

Leon Redbone returns to Wood Fire Thursday, Oct. 15. Not only will it be his fourth appearance in Dowagiac, but the Grand Old City marks his only Michigan stop on his current tour.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibit Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples explores the sumptuous life of the famously doomed city.

The first Pompapalooza Festival is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, in Pompeii, on State about six south of Ithaca.

University of Michigan researchers have found the first archaeological evidence of ancient human hunting activity preserved under the Great Lakes.