Tag: Pompeii
Stolen Hercules Fresco Finds Its Home After Decades in U.S. Collection
Archaeologists at Pompeii have identified the original location of a looted fresco fragment depicting the infant Hercules strangling serpents, solving a mystery that began when the artwork was stolen years ago from…
Archaeological Evidence Confirms Survivors Returned to Devastated Pompeii After 79 AD Eruption
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,…
How Did a Volcano Turn This Roman’s Brain to Glass?
In 79 AD the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed by an enormous volcanic eruption. The devastation caused by the eruption of Vesuvius went on for two days, burying the…
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science: Scroll from Herculaneum is Read from Within
Some of the finds from the cities destroyed in the eruption of Vesuvius are ruined beyond restoration. Much was preserved but the destruction was immense, and the greater part of the contents…