Scrolls from Pompeii could now be read for the first time in 2,000 years.
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The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one of annihilation; it also includes the people who managed to escape the city.
The paintings show the trio of women from Greek myth in a way that makes us see the Trojan War myth anew.
The story of how a ‘new Pompeii’ was built is far less well known than that of the ancient city.
However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.
Sexuality in Ancient Rome was more preoccupied with power dynamics than it was with gender – as an expert in visual cultures of sexuality explains.
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.
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Lecturer in Classical Studies, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London; Honorary Fellow, Macquarie University, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Leeds
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Research fellow, University of Hull
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
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Doctoral Researcher in Classics, Trinity College Dublin
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University
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Assistant Professor of Literature and History, University of Warwick
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Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Ancient History, University of West Georgia
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Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
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Associate Professor of Classics, University of Manitoba
