Here’s how it works. The skeleton of a soldier found on a beach at Herculaneum, an ancient town that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, may be that of a rescue-party member sent ...

ROME — A 2,000-year-old skeleton belonged to a senior Roman soldier who was likely sent on a rescue mission to the doomed towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum as Mount Vesuvius erupted, scientists ...

the skeleton described in reports as being “little more than a boy” was the one that ended up with top billing. Although he was more likely a militiaman than a colonial soldier, they called ...

The soldier wasn't posing and there was nothing staged about the image." But later, when the photo was distributed to news outlets around the world and started to go viral, the grinning skeleton ...

At the site of the Battle of Waterloo, archaeologists from the nonprofit Waterloo Uncovered have discovered a complete skeleton. The newly unearthed bones likely belong to a soldier who died ...