Mount Vesuvius
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:07
Pompeii keeps surprising.
The well-preserved remains of two men, victims of Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 AD, were discovered in the underground corridor of…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 02/25/2020 - 09:32
Pompeii's so-called ‘House of Lovers’ has reopened to the public for the first time in 40 years.
The house, the only ‘domus’ whose second floor was almost…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 10/23/2018 - 03:00
A charcoal inscription recently unearthed on the walls of a house in Pompeii seems to suggest that the ancient Roman city was destroyed by the eruption of…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 05/29/2018 - 06:38
The remains of an adult, limping man have emerged in Pompeii in an area of new excavations, the so-called Regio V, at the corner between the Vicolo dei Balconi…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 08/18/2017 - 00:00
Mount Vesuvius, the volcano famous for the 79 AD eruption that destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, today is part of a protected area, the…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 01/14/2016 - 02:00
You may be familiar with Pomodoro San Marzano, but have you ever heard of the “pomodorino vesuviano”?
The Vesuvio Piennolo cherry tomato (full name: Pomodorino…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 02/03/2015 - 02:00
A new x-ray technique has allowed scientists to decipher letters from Herculaneum papyri carbonized by the 79 AD eruption that also destroyed Pompeii.
In 1752…
Lifestyle
by Anonymous (not verified) | Sun, 12/15/2013 - 05:00
An overhead view of Mount Vesuvius captured by satellite is currently leading DigitalGlobe's satellite image contest, with more than 5,700 "likes" from…
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