Pompeii family's desperate fight for survival: Archaeologists discover a bed wedged against the door of a house - alongside the remains of a child

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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Experts from Pompeii Archaeological Park have excavated a home dubbed the 'House of Elle and Frisso' along Via del Vesuvio.

Andor, Pink Floyd at Pompeii and Conclave: the week in rave reviews

found 2025 › Apr › 26 (Sat) @ 07:40 UTC

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The thrilling Star Wars spin-off returns, the Floyd sound epic in a 1971 concert film and the timely papal drama hits streaming. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-…

Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII review – mesmerically peculiar portrait of band on cusp of greatness

found 2025 › Apr › 24 (Thu) @ 06:35 UTC

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Gilmour, Waters, Wright and Mason are space rock whippets in the burning Italian sun in this outrageously indulgent yet vivid and beguiling music documentary

Here they are: Pink Floyd in 1971, amazing…

Two near lifesize sculptures found during excavations of Pompeii tomb

found 2025 › Apr › 01 (Tue) @ 16:10 UTC

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The detailed relics were found in a necropolis and experts believe the woman depicted could have been an important priestess

Two almost lifesize sculptures of a man and woman, who was believed to have…

Fears for missing Brit tourist, 47, who vanished a week ago after visit to Pompeii

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 21:48 UTC

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Robert Cadger, 47, was last seen on Monday, March 10, after he visited the historic archaeological site, Pompeii, during a getaway to Naples.

Pompeii had a secret CULT for 'raving, intoxicated women', archaeologists say

found 2025 › Feb › 27 (Thu) @ 18:24 UTC

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At Pompeii in Italy, archeologists have uncovered a sensational fresco depicting a mysterious cult of raving, intoxicated women.

What TikTokers get wrong in their viral AI 'history' videos: 'Healthy' and 'modern' people during the Black Death, the wrong kind of eruption at Pompeii and 'absurd' WWI uniforms in the trenches

found 2025 › Feb › 27 (Thu) @ 18:24 UTC

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Put yourself in the shoes of a soldier in the trenches in the First World War, or imagine waking up on a sunny morning in Pompeii hours before annihilation.

AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 17:03 UTC

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Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition

Researchers have peered inside an ancient scroll that was burned to a crisp in t…

Paprikash fish and leek and olive stew: Irina Georgescu’s recipes from the Danube

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 08:38 UTC

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Two traditional and homely dishes from Romania

The way we Romanians cook at home is more varied and regional than what you get in the country’s restaurants, which generally serve a pretty standard men…

Pompeii's dark omen: Ancient footprints show people had to escape an eruption of Mount Vesuvius 1,800 years BEFORE the one that buried the famous Roman city

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 15:42 UTC

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Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even larger outburst, triggering a masse exodus from the disaster zone.