Recent excavations at Pompeii have confirmed what archaeologists long suspected but struggled to document: survivors of Mount Vesuvius’s catastrophic 79 AD eruption returned to live among the ruins. The Pompeii archaeological discovery, announced Wednesday by site directors, provides concrete evidence that people inhabited the devastated Roman city for centuries after the volcanic disaster that killed
Imagine yourself stumbling upon a jagged triangular stone glinting in the Mediterranean sun, with its sharp edges hinting at a mysterious past. What you’ve just stumbled upon was once known as glossopetrae or “tongue stones”. For centuries, people across Europe believed these objects were the petrified tongues of mythical serpents or dragons. Glossopetrae had been