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A LEGACY OF DISASTERS Pompeii has been a byword for catastrophe since 79 A.D., when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing most of the city’s inhabitants. After serious excavations began halfway ...
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Did Anyone Actually Survive Pompeii?
When people think of Pompeii, they usually picture tragedy frozen in time — bodies preserved in ash, homes swallowed up […] ...
I had come to Pompeii to explore one such boundary, at the abrupt terminus of the Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento—the Street of the Silver Wedding—in a corner of what archeologists have ...
We never expected this to happen… Our $80,000 cinema camera—the heart of our productions—met with disaster, and it all ...
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Pompeii is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy. It is also, apparently, a popular target for archaeological theft. According to the Guardian, a travel agent in the city received an ...
Alabama Smith in Escape from Pompeii Join Alabama Smith as he quests for the time-bending Amulet of Ages. Solve elaborate puzzles to uncover the location of a lost, mystical relic that allows its ...
Pompeii was famously destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The wealthy town, which was home to between 10,000 and 20,000 people, was largely preserved underneath a thick layer of ...
The stunning, complete plaster cast of one of the villa's horses is the first of its kind from Pompeii. When the volcano erupted, many of the town’s residents and animals collapsed and died in ...
ROME, June 5 (Reuters) - A minor earthquake in southern Italy has caused the partial collapse of a wall and a portion of a vault at the Pompeii archaeological site, authorities said on Thursday ...