Pompeii News

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

Ryan Dankenbring didn't plan to stay in Michigan for long when he returned to Peck last year for a visit.

A fascinating session at last year's annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston was dedicated to graffiti, especially early Christian graffiti in Izmir , Turkey.

Fourth- and fifth-grade students at Tonda Elementary in Canton may not have realized it, but they just completed a project in which they helped education students from the University of Michigan learn how to teach.

Pompeii's lurid fate, together with the excavations that hinted at the way it was before Vesuvius blew, have long intrigued.

Former EastEnders actress Wendy Richard has died. She was 65. The veteran actress passed away this morning at the Harley Street Clinic in central London with her husband John Burns at her bedside.

The speed with which bushfires tore through Australian homes, and Man's inability to cope with Nature when it turns on him, seems reminiscent of the fate of Pompeii.

When speaking of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the city of Pompeii in A.D. 79, it was Goethe who said, "Many disasters have befallen the world, but few have brought posterity so much joy." We all ...

ANY WAY YOU slice it, building a museum in Malibu in the style of a Pompeian villa has a touch of the Guccione about it.

To read about Pompeii is to be disconcertingly reminded of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 - " so many people perished while performing such ordinary tasks .

At around 1:00 p.m. on Aug. 24, 79 A.D., Pompeii residents saw a pine tree-shaped column of smoke bursting from Vesuvius.

After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, many Pompeiians fled into the streets in an attempt to escape the rain of pumice, gas and rock.