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Pompeii Was Once Home to Lavish Villas with Towers for Elite Citizens, New Study Finds

Additionally, the renderings match narrative and visual descriptions from the time. Pliny the Younger's description of his ...

'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius

"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who ...

'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...
National Catholic Reporter

From satanist to saint: Meet Bartolo Longo, who gave the world Pompeii's shrine to Mary

When pilgrims gather in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 19 to witness the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo, they will see not ...
Earth.com

Victims of the Pompeii volcano were not who we've been told, according to DNA study

Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...

Ancient Sundial Shaped Like Ham Was Roman Pocket Watch

A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

‘The Book of Memory’ Review: Ghosts Inside Us

Our personalities are strongly formed by memories. Among the most significant may be those whose details have faded.
The Boston Pilot

From satanist to saint: Meet Bartolo Longo, who gave world the shrine of Our Lady in Pompeii

When pilgrims gather in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 19 to witness the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo, along with six other blesseds, they will see not just the eleva ...