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Tag: Pompeii (Italy)
In Ancient Pompeii, Fresco Dining Room With Trojan Decor Offers New Insights
A frescoed dining room is the latest find in an excavation campaign to shore up an area of the site, which was destroyed by a powerful volcanic eruption, and better preserve it.
Life for the Lowest Class in Ancient Pompeii? It Was Awful.
Excavations in the ancient ruins have unearthed a cramped space where enslaved workers and donkeys performed their grueling tasks.
Life for the Lowest Class in Ancient Pompeii? It Was Awful.
Excavations in the ancient ruins have unearthed a cramped space where enslaved workers and donkeys performed their grueling tasks.
Life for the Lowest Class in Ancient Pompeii? It Was Awful.
Excavations in the ancient ruins have unearthed a cramped space where enslaved workers and donkeys performed their grueling tasks.
Life for the Lowest Class in Ancient Pompeii? It Was Awful.
Excavations in the ancient ruins have unearthed a cramped space where enslaved workers and donkeys performed their grueling tasks.
A Proto-Pizza Emerges From a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall
That doughy disc with delectable toppings seen in a 2,000-year-old painting is not a pizza, experts insist. But can we get one delivered anyway?
How Does Pompeii Maintain Its Ruins? Hungry Sheep.
The archaeological park of Pompeii has found a low-tech way to prevent the site from being overrun by vegetation: hungry sheep.
When, Exactly, Did Mount Vesuvius Erupt?
From tracing ashes to Greece to analyzing autumnal fruit found in Pompeii, a new study places the eruption in October, not August.
A Pompeii Man’s DNA Rises From the Ancient Ashes of Vesuvius
Genetic material recovered from a 1st-century Pompeii man reveals a spinal disorder and ancestral links to Anatolia.