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Vesuvius buried the villa at Boscoreale in 79 CE, about a kilometre north of Pompeii on the mountain’s lower slopes. By then the room was already old. Its walls had been painted around 50 to 40 BCE, while Caesar was still alive and the Republic still formally existed, so what the …
Pliny the Younger wrote two letters to the historian Tacitus describing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, and they are the only eyewitness account of …
Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii is not a film about the eruption of Vesuvius. It is a film about a slave-turned-gladiator and a merchant’s daughter whose …
On the morning of August 24, 79 AD — though some scholars now argue for a date in October based on pomegranate seeds and autumn clothing found in the …
A museum case in Berlin’s Altes Museum holds a collection of Roman domestic bronzes from Rome and Pompeii, first through fourth century AD, under a …
