Local officials said scholars first found evidence of a villa at the site more than ... help" to continue with the excavation. Pompeii - the Roman city buried after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...
The excavations taking place in the Roman city, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius, reflect the beauty and sophistication of ...
Fourteen miles southeast of modern Naples lies Pompeii, a city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...
Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...
When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for centuries.
The discovery was made in a villa on the outskirts of the ancient ... in the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago. One was probably a man ...
A hint to the identity of the villa’s owner ... of the period. High Roman society was steeped in Greek mythology. The wealthy citizens who owned houses in Pompeii and Herculaneum would have ...
The villa’s exact whereabouts ... However, in 1929, the director of excavations in Pompeii, Matteo Della Corte, was tipped off by a friend about Roman ruins on the north slope of Vesuvius ...
Roman law dictated that slaves were property ... The Civita Giuliana villa, outside the Pompeii city walls, was first excavated in 2017, and since then several stunning finds have been uncovered ...