The ancient city of Pompeii is famous for housing over a thousand striking and unsettling figures of people frozen in time, preserved in ash for 2,000 years after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Now, ...

New excavations of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have revealed the skeleton of a man who may have been decapitated by a large stone block as he fled from the catastrophic 79 C.E. eruption of Mount ...

If it hasn’t become a meme yet, it soon will: there's an image floating around the web about a skeleton with a giant stone block sitting where its skull should be. The picture comes from new ...

A month ago, archaeologists at Pompeii announced the discovery of a new skeleton of a victim of Mt. Vesuvius whose legs and torso were sticking out from under an enormous stone block. The skeleton ...

Maybe you've bought an old clock or some toys at an auction, but an entire human skeleton? That's exactly what happened Tuesday afternoon in Lehigh County. There weren't many bidders, but a lot of ...

The demand for rare fossilized dinosaur skeletons seems to be at a fever pitch lately, with sales breaking auction records faster than a pack of raptors can destroy an ill-conceived amusement park.