“Pompeii is like a rip in the screen, through which we have the opportunity to take a peek behind the official version of history,” writes Mr. Zuchtriegel. He describes in vivid detail his 2021 ...

Colums frame the "peristylium," or courtyard, in the center of the Ancient Roman Domus Vettiorum, House of Vettii, in the Pompeii Archeological Park, near Naples, southern Italy, December 14, 2022.

On Aug. 24, A.D. 79, from his villa in Misenum, near Naples, the learned Pliny the Elder — whose “Natural History” is one of the great encyclopedic works of antiquity — noticed a cloud of ...

The Roman city of Pompeii was devastated following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Pompeii was quickly buried by volcanic ash, killing about 2,000 of the city’s residents, according to ...

Giudici says their work goes beyond archaeology and is about the human history of Pompeii. ... Spend the night stargazing at the Pompeii Forum on August 10th, the night of San Lorenzo.

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