Two life-size funerary figures have been found in Pompeii that reveal the power, status, and public role of a Roman woman.
MILAN — The discovery of two skeletons buried beneath a collapsed wall in the Pompeii archaeological site point to deaths by powerful earthquakes that accompanied the devastating eruption of Mount ...
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The final hours of Pompeii

Pompeii didn’t die in one instant—it collapsed in stages, hour by hour, as the sky turned into ash. At first, people watched the eruption like it was distant trouble, not the end of the world. Then ...
Pompeii may have been unseasonably cold when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed the Roman city in A.D. 79, new research proposes. A new analysis of 14 of the iconic plaster casts made of the ...
"This book is published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 28 March to 29 September 2013"--Title page verso. This work explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii and ...