For Prince Philip, the first intimations of mortality came at the end of 2011, just two days before Christmas.

In 79 CE, one of the most infamous tragedies of antiquity rocked the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Mount Vesuvius erupted, ...

The destruction of Pompeii preserved ash residues on the household altars of its inhabitants. An international research team has scientifically investigated for the first time what was burned in Roman ...

The first permanent exhibition of Pompeii’s historic casts is now on display in Italy, paying homage to those who were brutally killed after being engulfed by an inundation of volcanic ash. The ...

It’s been a rocky road for Britain’s House of Windsor of late. Ever since the end of World War II, it has wobbled dangerously close to the cliff’s edge of abolition, only to catch a breather and ...

More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first time Thursday in a permanent exhibition.The casts, which scholars call ...

Pompeii, Italy (AP) — More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first time Thursday in a permanent exhibition. The casts, ...

Windsor, 66, the younger brother of Charles, 77, is retreating from public life to Marsh Farm, a heavily secured farmhouse on the monarch's privately owned Sandringham estate in Norfolk. Andrew ...