The Latest Breaking News from Pompeii

Prog rockers score seventh No 1 album with recording of Italian gig, extending their chart run following final studio album The Endless River in 2014

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a door with a bed during Vesuvius's terrible eruption.

PLAYBACK: The 1972 concert film ‘Live at Pompeii’ has been restored and remixed for cinemas and IMAX. Stevie Chick explores how it captured the band at their majestic peak of invention

THE LIST: Martin Chilton shares his May reading highlights

Archaeologists discover bed wedged against door of a house - alongside remains of a child

Pilots are accused of stowing tourist luggage on flight controls and dropping petals from aircraft

Wilson was in conversation with former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason at a special BFI IMAX screening of Adrian Maben's recently restored and rereleased concert movie

Gilmour, Waters, Wright and Mason are space rock whippets in the burning Italian sun in this outrageously indulgent yet vivid and beguiling music documentary

Watch Pink Floyd’s performance of One Of These Days from their restored Pompeii concert film which arrives in cinemas on April 24

ANALYSIS: New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes Emily Hauser

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls. And it’s easy to understand why: there’s plenty on offer within this monumentally well-preserved town,…