Pompeii - Finestre sull'Arte

Musk Foundation funds research on ancient Rome: what Musk wants to do with his $3 million

The Musk Foundation recently allocated three million dollars to enhance research and preservation of the cultural heritage of ancient Rome. The announcement was made in recent days by Andrea Stroppa, an Italian associate of Elon Musk, who made the fu...
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Pompeii, uncovered a large private bath complex attached to a banquet hall

In the Pompeii Archaeological Park, a large private bath complex, attached to a banquet hall, has emerged in the excavation site currently underway in insula 10 of Regio IX. This is one of the largest and most complex private bath sectors so far disc...
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Pompeii, new frescoes discovered and some rooms reopened

Discoveries that enrich Pompeii's archaeological heritage continue. Ongoing excavations in Pompeii's Regio IX have brought to light, in an oecus (hall) that is emerging with the very latest investigations, very interesting frescoes: in the colonnaded...
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Pompeii, new discovery disproves decades of assumptions about relationships between inhabitants

New discoveries from Pompeii could change our knowledge about the great archaeological site. A recent study by researchers from theUniversity of Florence, Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig used ancient DNA analysis to revise ...
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Pompeii, House of Phaedra discovered, a rare domus without an atrium. Which also has an erotic fresco

In Pompeii, a new ongoing archaeological excavation in the area of theinsula of the Casti Amanti has unearthed a rare housing typology that testifies to social and cultural change in first-century AD Rome. The house, which takes the provisional name ...
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Two leading contemporary artists create Pompeii's first sticker collection

A leading contemporary art duo creates a collection of stickers for the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. We are talking about Allora & Calzadilla, who started with a question: what if Pompeii became part of our daily conversations by embracing tod...
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Zuchtriegel surprisingly reopens debate on Pompeii's eruption! August or October?

In a post on his socials on August 24, Pompeii Archaeological Park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel recalled theeruption of Vesuvius on August 24, 79 A .D ."On August 24, 79 A.D., the eruption of Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum," Zuchtriegel r...
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The cities of Vesuvius: the five sites to see in and around Pompeii

The cities buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., Pompeiii, Herculaneum, Boscoreale, Stabiae and Oplontis, constitute a tragic account of the volcano's devastating impact on the ancient cities of the Vesuvian region. The volcano erupted in an...
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