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The aim, says Professor Massimo Osanna, the visionary Italian archaeologist who oversees Pompeii, is to construct a portrait of Roman Italy so detailed, graphic, and multi-faceted that “it’s ...

The journey from Naples to the ruins of Pompeii takes about half an hour on the Circumvesuviana, a train that rattles through a ribbon of land between the base of Mt. Vesuvius, on one side, and ...

Archaeologists have since injected plaster into these voids to recreate the shapes and poses of those who perished, offering a haunting portrait of life interrupted. Pompeii remained buried for ...

It is often assumed that life in Roman times was nasty, brutish and short – and it certainly could be. Only half of children born in Pompeii could expect to make it past the age of 10, but analysis of ...

The Alexander Mosaic and some pictures displaying the nondestructive noninvasive archaeometric campaign. Credit: G. Balassone et al. In 2020, the MANN launched an ambitious project to restore the ...

At the time, some Pompeii residents no longer felt the need for atriums, which were used as reception rooms and to display portraits and trophies, and replaced them with halls and courtyards.

For more than 50 years, a family in Pompeii kept a real treasure inside their home without having any idea about its worth. The canvas, found in the 1960s by a junk dealer, hung in their living ...

Pablo Picasso's signature on the painting found by Luigi Lo Rosso, a junk dealer in Pompeii, who until recently had never imagined that he had a treasure inside his house, is authentic.. Confirmation ...