September 16, 2011
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Just remembered what was bugging me about that original article … way back in 2004 (and I thought I had blogged this, but perhaps it was in Explorator), a Berlin-based researcher had claimed to have figured out the ‘formula’ for Pompeii red, which included a pile of cinnabar. Discovery News had the story … here’s…
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From Rome Reports:
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Fun item from Corriere del Mezzogiorno … a tourist is out hiking near Paestum, falls in a hole and discovers what eventually turned out to be three (Etruscan?) tombs: Pare l’inizio di un romanzo: un turista passeggia in un’area archeologica e forse assorto nei suoi pensieri inciampa in una buca. Non una buca qualsiasi. Ma…
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Martin Conde alerts us to an item in today’s Corriere della Sera (which hasn’t made it to the online version yet) in which it is suggested that gases from the eruption of Vesuvius altered the original ‘yellow’ to produce the famous ‘pompeiian red’ we associate with, inter alia, the Villa of the Mysteries. MC has…
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Perhaps my spiders (see next post) were just confused by this one, as I was last night … from Standart: A pot with gold jewelry dating back from the Thracian period was donated to a museum instead of being smuggled by black archeologist’s mafia. A day ago the police found in the house of 41-years…
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