Archaeologists have uncovered one of Pompeii’s largest and most elaborate private bathhouses. Complete with mosaic floors, ...

"In the eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum ... where the French Angevin monarchy first settled, and it marks the geographic and, in some ways, the emotional heart of the city.

This story appears in the October 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii-like decor to remind him of home while he was stationed in this provincial ...