If you are trying to travel beyond landscape and cuisine and looking to spend time with the ancient past, Pompeii stands apart as a place that can put you right inside the heart of the ancient ...

Steven Tuck's book indicates that some people survived the Mount Vesuvius eruption, challenging traditional beliefs.

The true date of the eruption has long eluded—and vexed—historians of the deadly disaster. Here’s what the archaeological evidence tells us. The ancient city of Herculanum was destroyed by the ...

Pompeii is a city frozen in time and shows us exactly how the Romans really lived. Buried by volcanic ash and debris from the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in 79AD, visitors to the Roman town can ...

"Time destroys everything, preserves everything, and then returns to us in an unexpected way." Mubi has revealed the official ...

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Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion decorated the corridor wall outside of a theater.

It is remarkable what, with enough ingenuity, can be gleaned from the most unpromising of materials – such as Roman limescale. That’s what a team based in Germany has been studying, and they have used ...

Greek writer and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis once said, “All my life, one of my greatest desires has been to travel, to see ...

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