The archeological park will cap daily visits at 20,000 people. Highly sought-out travel destinations like Venice, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Mount Fuji and now Pompeii have one key thing in common ...

Pompeii is going to limit the number of people who can visit the world-famous Italian site to 20,000 a day amid concerns about overtourism. The archaeological park plans to introduce the cap next ...

Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...

Ash raining down from the volcano blanketed Pompeii and surrounding cities, preserving frescoes, buildings and citizens where they fell. Over time, Pompeii was forgotten, and it wasn’t until ...

To mark the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the image of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii on Nov. 13, Pope Francis has encouraged Catholics to contemplate the life of Christ ...

9 (UPI) --A volcanic eruption destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD ... Advertisement Archeologists earlier this year uncovered frescoes depicting mythical the god Apollo, Helen of Troy ...

Pompeii is to cap daily visitor numbers at ... including an uncommonly small house revealed last month with finely preserved frescoes of mythological scenes.

The number of tourists flocking to the archaeological site of Pompeii in Italy will now be capped following a surge in visitors. In October, an unprecedented 36,000 people descended on the site in ...

As of next week, no more than 20,000 people a day can visit Pompeii in a bid combat over-tourism. There will also be personalised tickets containing visitors’ full names from November 15 ...

Archaeological Park of Pompeii In the ruins of Pompeii, visitors aren’t only able to see the houses, frescos and artifacts of the ancient city’s people. They can also “see” the people ...

For the archeology nerds among us, there are plenty of intriguing sites, burial grounds and remnants of ancient history dotted all over the planet, but few are as eerily fascinating as Pompeii.