Pompeii
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Image by Tintern via Flickr I suspect this one from the Toledo Museum of Art will be popular among our readers: Andrea Mall discussed room groupings in Roman domestic architecture and their decoration at the Toledo Museum of Art. These suites of rooms, or diaetae as they were called in Latin, likely had their origin…
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They don’t seem to take into account spinoff damage to tourism that would no doubt follow another destruction of Pompeii and the like … A major eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius could result in 8,000 fatalities, 13,000 serious injuries and total economic losses of more than $24 billion, according to a new study supported by…
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Nice little video from the BBC: more about “Pompeii Casts“, posted with vodpod From the accompanying text (with a somewhat unfortunate headline, as FT noted on twitter last night): They are the skeletal remains of the victims that have been preserved under a thin veneer of plaster, to give them their life form. “Until now,…
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Mary Beard was talking at the University of Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Department of Classics hosted a distinguished professor of classics for a lecture about the ancient Roman city of Pompeii at the Chazen Museum of Art Thursday night as part of the Year in Humanities. Mary Beard, a professor of classics from Cambridge…
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Okay … for the past while I’ve been trying to understand a number of Italian newspaper articles about changes going on at the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali . It seemed that there were things going on ‘at the top’, but it took an item in English from the March edition of…
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