Plaster casts were made of the newly discovered victims of Vesuvius eruption, which are believed to have been a wealthy landowner and his slave

The black glassy material was found inside the skull of a 25-year-old caretaker of an imperial building in Herculaneum, who was probably asleep at the time of the eruption

Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini says the find shows the site is an "inexhaustible mine for archaeological research"

The exhibition in Oxford, which contains loans that have never before left Italy, includes a (possible) Roman version of a chamber pot

Excavation tells a poignant story of an unfortunate Roman

Artists invited to create sculptural works with archaeological fragments held in deep storage