Beats Of Pompeii, the festival that blends history, art, and music in a unique archaeological setting, enriches its 2026 lineup with a new announcement. The thirteenth event of the program ...

On February 5, 1958, a U.S. Air Force B-47 bomber collided with an F-86 fighter jet during a training flight over Georgia, ...

If you are trying to travel beyond landscape and cuisine and looking to spend time with the ancient past, Pompeii stands apart as a place that can put you right inside the heart of the ancient ...

Pompeii is a city frozen in time and shows us exactly how the Romans really lived. Buried by volcanic ash and debris from the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in 79AD, visitors to the Roman town can ...

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Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion decorated the corridor wall outside of a theater.

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 ...

Each day holds a chance for a new adventure, or an exciting event waiting to happen. Every day in history has something ...

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people ...

When the a.d. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius blanketed the southern Italian city of Pompeii in layers of volcanic debris, it preserved the bodies of many individuals who had perished. Since ...