Pompeii News

November 4, 2009-- Just as some people today believe a Maya calendar pinpoints 2012 as the end of the world as we know it, some ancient Romans saw the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius , as a sign of a coming apocalypse.

The coffin of Egyptian priest Djehutymose is one highlight of the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology's collection.

As I made my way through Italy, I failed miserably at this. Decked out in ugly, practical walking shoes, a messenger bag bulging with various maps, funny little earpieces with a big black receiver that hung around my neck to hear our tour guide with, and my camera always held at the ready and clutched protectively in my hand, I looked like the ...

Leon Redbone returns to Wood Fire Thursday, Oct. 15. Not only will it be his fourth appearance in Dowagiac, but the Grand Old City marks his only Michigan stop on his current tour.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibit Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples explores the sumptuous life of the famously doomed city.

The first Pompapalooza Festival is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, in Pompeii, on State about six south of Ithaca.

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.