The plaster casts of Pompeii's victims have long stood as some of the most haunting reminders of the eruption of Mount ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have used advanced imaging techniques to uncover the identity of a fugitive, who was a Roman doctor ...

The plaster cast in focus belongs to a man believed to be a Roman medicus, a physician. Credit: Pompeii Archaeological Park.

More than sixty years after excavations at the infamous Garden of the Fugitives, archaeologists have identified one of the victims: a doctor attempting to flee the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Archaeologists have made several extraordinary discoveries while carrying out a routine restoration on a cast located at ...