Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
Nearly 2,000-year-old human remains from Oplontis, near Pompeii, are revealing what people living in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius regularly ate before the catastrophic eruption…
A richly painted ceiling depicting Dionysus and Ariadne, once suspended above an upstairs banquet hall in Pompeii, has been partially reconstructed from hundreds of fragments…
A Pompeii victim who died while fleeing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 may have been a Roman doctor, according to new scans…
Pompeii evidence points to an ancient automatic weapon known as the Roman polybolos—an advanced repeating machine once thought to exist only in ancient texts. Unusual…
Nearly two millennia after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii continues to reveal intimate details of Roman life. This time, the evidence comes not from…
A striking discovery illuminating the historical fabric of Pompeii has been made in the Porta Sarno necropolis. The “Investigating the Archaeology of Death in Pompeii”…
In recent days, a swarm of earthquakes in the Aegean Sea has alarmed the residents of Santorini, leading to a rapid evacuation of the island,…
