Footprints Reveal Ancient Escape From Vesuvius—1,800 Years Before Pompeii’s Destruction
The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Footprints of People Fleeing Vesuvius Eruption
Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.
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Pompeii's dark omen: Ancient footprints show people had to escape an eruption of Mount Vesuvius 1,800 years BEFORE the one that buried the famous Roman city
What have they found? This event ended the life of the cities but at the same time preserved them until rediscovery by archaeologists nearly 1700 years later. The excavation of Pompeii ...
The ancient city 'just as good as Pompeii' but without the crowds of tourists
Deep among Guatemala's northern rainforests is the Tikal complex of Mayan ruins. A Mayan city known as Yax Mutal, the capital ...
AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano
Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, ...
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Necropolis in Naples Reveals the Enduring Influence of Ancient Greece
A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...
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My favorite day trips from Rome
There’s nothing like grabbing a morning espresso, then hopping on a train and setting off to an unknown destination. When I ...
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Pompeii archaeologists find 'once-in-a-century' private spa complex alongside banquet hall
art, and political ambition within their homes. "Everything was functional to the staging of a "show", at the centre of which was the owner himself," underlines the Pompeii director Gabriel ...
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Pre-Pompeii: Footprints of villagers fleeing Mount Vesuvius found in Salerno
(photo credit: Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape ... blanketed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash. However, researchers have found that over a thousand years ...