4 min read • Jan 12, 2023
After being buried under rubble for nearly two millennia, Pompeii's House of the Vettii has reopened to the public following 20 years of restoration work.
4 min read • Jan 12, 2023
After being buried under rubble for nearly two millennia, Pompeii's House of the Vettii has reopened to the public following 20 years of restoration work.
4 min read • May 6, 2022
Ding dong! A new exhibition of 70 pieces of erotic and sensual art uncovered in the ancient Italian city will go on display until January 2023.
4 min read • Mar 2, 2022
Threatened by challenges ranging from climate change to overtourism, the World Monuments Fund released its bi-annual watch list of sites under threat.
3 min read • Feb 28, 2022
A national park in Georgia dedicated to protecting a site sacred to the Muskogee (Creek) people has doubled in size thanks to an effort to save it from…
4 min read • Feb 17, 2022
Naples' newest ancient attraction will allow visitors to travel 2500 years back in time when it opens to the public in June for the first time since its…
3 min read • Jun 25, 2021
The classic Inca Trail will accept visitors from July 15.
2 min read • Apr 13, 2021
The city was built around 3500 years ago and is part of a palace built for the jubilee of the pharoah Amenhotep III.
1 min read • Mar 2, 2021
The fresco on the back wall of the garden of the House of the Ceii was excavated between 1913 and 1914.
2 min read • Feb 17, 2021
Researchers believe that some of the stones may have come from another older monument, Waun Mawn, in Wales.
2 min read • Jan 28, 2021
A good part of Italy's massive cultural heritage is actually at the bottom of the country's seas, lakes and rivers, and Italy is taking its first steps in…
2 min read • Jan 27, 2021
The Antiquarium of Pompeii has reopened as a museum dedicated to finds that show and narrate the story of Pompeii.
2 min read • Jan 13, 2021
The Mausoleum of Augustus will finally open to the public in March 2021, welcoming visitors into the resting place of Rome's first emperor.
2 min read • Jan 4, 2021
The current conservation project in Pompeii has unearthed spectacular finds in recent years. The latest discovery is an incredibly well-preserved frescoed…
2 min read • Dec 17, 2020
The ancient, mystical site has announced that it will livestream its winter solstice celebration for the first time.
2 min read • Nov 30, 2020
Archaeologists working in Pompeii's excavations discovered the remains of two new victims of the eruption.
2 min read • Nov 30, 2020
The eight-mile wall of art was created by the first humans of the Amazon some 12,500 years ago.
2 min read • Nov 11, 2020
A team of archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the oldest site that housed enslaved people in southern Maryland, USA.
2 min read • Oct 15, 2020
Japanese tourist Jesse Katayama lived out all our dreams last Saturday when Peru opened Machu Picchu especially for him.
1 min read • Oct 5, 2020
The discovery was made in Saqqara, also the location of the world's oldest pyramid and an area that still hasn't revealed all its archaeological secrets.
3 min read • Sep 15, 2020
From the pyramids of Teotihuacan to the Mayan ruins of Tulum and El Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza, Mexico's most famous archaeological sites are…
2 min read • Sep 2, 2020
The find comes amidst one of Westminster Abbey’s largest archaeological projects, which is excavating ground on the North Green, which sought to uncover the…
2 min read • Aug 25, 2020
It was found at a site inside a wealthy home dating back to the Islamic period near Rahat in the Negev Desert.