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Pompeii is remembered as a place of surprising liberality – but the ‘masturbating man’ is probably a far less lurid tale than assumed.
While they weren’t living through a pandemic, citizens of ancient Pompeii weren’t strangers to societal stress.
New technology mapped the buried ancient Roman site of Falerii Novi. Now archaeologists have started targeted excavation and soil testing to reveal details of life from more than 2,000 years ago.
Research into the bodies of victims of the Vesuvius eruption show how pyroclastic flows affect the human body.
Pompeii was so famous in the ancient world for its wine other regions made counterfeit wine, sold in imitation ceramic jars.
Believed to possess magical qualities, amulets were once widely used. They range from amber pendants worn during Denmark’s Mesolithic age to wind chimes found at Pompeii.
The plants a Roman chose could say a lot about the person they were.
Words are as important as pictures for helping us come to terms with such a huge cultural loss.
Excavations on the site of Rome’s greatest natural disaster can tell us a lot about attitudes to death.
Fountains of lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano are dramatic, but the most deadly impacts of volcanic eruptions are toxic gases and ash and mud flows.
From phallus-shaped wind chimes to explicit erotica on lamps and cups, sex is everywhere in ancient Greek and Roman art. But our interpretations of these images say much about our own culture.
Though their activities were depicted alluringly in murals, the sex workers of Pompeii were slaves who lived hard lives.
Was there a ‘dinosaur Pompeii’ in China? New research questions the claim.
Archaeological and textual detective work is filling in some information about how ancient Romans used and thought about their sewers thousands of years ago.
The recent announcement that European scientists had pioneered a technique for reading papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum without unrolling them attracted widespread attention. At first glance, this might…
It seems that every time a new film based on historical events is released, there’s a rush to discuss accuracy, realism and what value the film might have for learning anything about the past. This is…
It was reported recently that a fresco has been stolen from Pompeii. Its absence must have been hard to notice. Flooding had severely damaged the already disintegrating frescoes in Pompeii, so one might…
Pompeii has always been a magical place for me with its vast avenues and huge government buildings, small familiar houses and gardens and, of course, the mummified bodies of town citizens, immortalised…
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Lecturer in Classical Studies, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London; Assistant Director of Archaeology, British School at Rome; Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University, Macquarie University
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Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University
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Research fellow, University of Hull
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Leeds
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Geosciences; Director for the Boise State Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute, Boise State University
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Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeobiology, University College Cork
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Harmsworth Postdoctoral Fellow in History, University of Oxford
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Doctoral Researcher in Classics, Trinity College Dublin
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Dean of Health & Life Sciences + Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology, Teesside University
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Professor of Ancient History, University of Reading
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Professor of Ancient History, University of West Georgia
