Pompeii
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We’ll start with a video from the BBC and with a focus on what the people died from: … and then remind folks of a Scientific American blog on the subject (which includes another one of our fave videos): Geology Scene Investigation: Death by Volcanic Fire … and now that you’re interested (as if you…
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I’ve seen this one in various places (this particular text is via the Classicists list): New courses for university students: Discover the ancient Romans in the shadow of Vesuvius! The Herculaneum Centre www.herculaneumcentre.org is very pleased to announce the launch of a new series of university-level courses related to Vesuvian archaeology that will take place…
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Not sure whether this will make it out of the Italian press … the La Repubblica coverage briefly mentions the collapse of an interior wall of a house without one of those fancy schmancy names in Regio V … the area wasn’t open to the public: Ancora un crollo all’interno degli Scavi di Pompei. L’ennesimo…
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Over at Blogging Pompeii, they have links to a couple of recent interviews — one in English, one in Italian — with Dr Wallace-Hadrill all about the Herculaneum Conservation Project: Radio interviews with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill on Herculaneum
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem ix kalendas septembres rites in honour of Luna at the Graecostasis mundus patet — the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November eighth) at which time the gates…
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