Sixty years after the body was first discovered, advanced imaging techniques revealed a curious box that resembled the kind Roman doctors carried to treat patients. Reading time 2 minutes In 79 CE, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all know the plaster casts of Pompeii, haunting human snapshots of people caught in their final moments during the eruption of ...
Some 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted with terrifying force, raining ash and debris down upon the Roman city of Pompeii. One local man attempting to flee then raced toward the coast and tried ...
In 1748, an excavation near Naples led by Spanish engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre, under the patronage of Bourbon King Charles VII, uncovered something far more significant than the ancient ...
We all know the plaster casts of Pompeii, haunting human snapshots of people caught in their final moments during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. "I have always found these casts moving and ...