Records include the people who managed to escape the city. Introduction On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79,...
Pompeii
Pompeii preserves an extraordinary record of Roman urban life before Mount Vesuvius buried the city in 79 CE. Read how archaeology has recovered the experiences of the people who lived there.
One of the most common types of graffiti found lining the streets of Pompeii were political graffiti....
The charred papyrus scroll recovered from Herculaneum is preserved in 12 trays mounted under glass. Here is...
Forum, looking toward Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii Pompeii was not always a Roman town. By the mid-sixth century...
The view inside Pompeii’s old granary (Francesco Lastrucci) The famous archaeological treasure is falling into scandalous decline, even...
Brothels in Pompeii were decorated with murals depicting erotic and exotic scenes: but the reality was far...
Cover and illustration from the copy of Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii in the special collections of the...
View of the Forum with Mount Vesuvius in the distance, Pompeii By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 12.09.2015 Professor...