Smithsonian Magazine

Ancient Pompeii’s Elite May Have Built Lavish Towers on Top of Their Villas. Here’s What They May Have Looked Like

Digital reconstructions are bringing structures to life that may have collapsed during Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E.

Archaeologists finds 2,000 year-old snack bar that holds ancient Egyptain secret

Archaeologists recently unveiled an Egyptian vase inside what was once a fast-food kitchen in Pompeii. In a Nov. 6 Facebook post, the Pompeii Archaeological Park said the ceramic situla, or vase, was ...
Greek Reporter

Bronze Age Mycenaean Pottery Near Athens Acropolis Shows Rare Greek Artwork

A Bronze Age pottery fragment from a Mycenaean site near the Acropolis reveals detailed Greek art, offering new insight into early culture.
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Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan

The temperature hours ago climbed past 104 degrees, and the taxi’s air-conditioning is struggling to keep up. We are ...

Roman city of Pompeii rediscovered through immersive technology in London exhibition

Visitors have flocked to the once-buried city of Pompeii since its rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. Now you can see ...
New Scientist

Mysterious holes in Andean mountain may be an Inca spreadsheet

Thousands of holes arranged in a snake-like pattern on Monte Sierpe in Peru could have been a monumental accounting device ...
Family Destinations Guide

The Fascinating 13th-Century Museum In Arizona You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

That’s Besh-Ba-Gowah Museum in Globe, Arizona for you – a 700-year-old archaeological wonderland that somehow flies under the radar of most Arizona bucket lists. Let me tell you, if time travel were ...
Hyperallergic

Pompeii’s Elite Once Lived in Luxury Towers, Research Says

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The Harvard Crimson

Under Pompeii’s Ash, Harvard Researchers Unearth Everyday Life in Ancient Rome

Beneath the volcanic ash of Pompeii, researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Design are unearthing the hidden lives of ancient Romans at the Casa Della Regina Carolina – a once luxurious home ...
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‘Once-in-a Century’ Find Shows How Decadent Roman Elites Lived it Up in Pompeii

In the doomed city of Pompeii, the decadence and degeneracy of wealthy Roman aristocrats was legendary. At this elite mecca Rome’s rich and famous indulged themselves without restraint, shamelessly ...
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Trypillian Culture Female Figurines Found at Ukraine’s “Pompeii”

A team of archaeologists from the Ukraine discovered five clay female figurines hidden inside a hole in a wall in Verteba Cave, in the Borshchiv Region of western Ukraine. Dating to the first ...