Long before Pompeii was covered in ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, the people of the doomed city were confronting a threat of a very different kind.
Heritage is at the heart of a wine making project in Pompeii that is aiming to re-establish the southern Italian volcanic ...
Since 1863, archaeologists have made more than 100 plaster casts, which show how victims died after Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...
More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first ...
Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of ...
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Ancient Roman machine gun-like weapon may have damaged Pompeii’s walls during siege
Learn how a Roman polybolos unleashed rapid-fire projectiles during the siege of Pompeii.
Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest ...
A new permanent exhibition at Pompeii tells the full story of the ancient city’s destruction through casts, and accessible ...
In 89 BCE, when the residents of Pompeii rebelled against Rome, the Empire pulled no punches in its attempts to quell the revolt, launching a full-scale siege of the ill-fated city. Led by Lucius ...
The ancient city of Pompeii is one of those archaeological sites that keeps on giving with one discovery after another. While ...
The price of covering a room in the prized pigment was equal to between 50% and 90% of a Roman legionary's annual salary, a ...
Bastille’s 2013 hit 'Pompeii,' once the most-streamed song of all time in the UK, has surpassed two billion streams on Spotify.
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