Ancient skeleton of child found in ruins of Pompeii's bath
Work at ancient thermal baths in Pompeii's ruins has revealed the skeleton of a crouching child who perished in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in A.D. 79.
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Apr 25, 2018
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Image: Vesuvius on fire
With Italy suffering high temperatures and drought, wildfires have broken out including blazes that are ravaging the slopes of Mount Vesuvius near Naples. Using images taken by the Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite on 12 July ...
Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2017
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Ancient ornamental stud stolen from Pompeii; site closed
Officials say an ancient ornamental bronze stud has been stolen from an exhibit inside the Pompeii archaeological site.
Archaeology
May 18, 2017
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Researchers reconstruct beautiful house in Pompeii by using 3-D technology
By combining traditional archaeology with 3-D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands ...
Engineering
Oct 5, 2016
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Sediments in Gulf of Naples reveal impact on Roman water distribution after Vesuvius eruption
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from France, the U.S., the U.K. and Italy has found evidence of disruptions to the water delivery system in the area around Naples after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD ...
Exhibit features luxuries of the wealthy 1 percent of Ancient Rome, new info about Mt. Vesuvius eruption
In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted and wiped out a favorite vacation hotspot of the wealthiest Roman elites.
Archaeology
Apr 13, 2016
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Lead found in ink used to write scrolls buried by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
A team of European researchers has found evidence of lead in the ink used by early Greeks when writing on papyrus scrolls in the town of Herculaneum, near Mount Vesuvius. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
Slight surface movements on the radar
Scientists are making advances in the use of satellite radar data – such as those from the Sentinel-1 mission – to monitor Earth's changing surface.
Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2015
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Latrines, sewers show varied ancient Roman diet
Archaeologists picking through latrines, sewers, cesspits and trash dumps at Pompeii and Herculaneum have found tantalizing clues to an apparently varied diet there before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed those Roman ...
Archaeology
Nov 14, 2014
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Rain triggers latest collapse in ancient Pompeii
A section of wall around an ancient shop in Pompeii is the latest casualty of rain in one of Italy's most popular archaeological sites.
Archaeology
Mar 3, 2014
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