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I have been creating content about Pompeii (and Herculaneum) for a good while so I thought I would have a page with all the links to articles, videos and podcast episodes. Have a scroll and get reading, listening or watching about Pompeii! Pompeii – articles. I have done a couple of articles on this blog […]
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One of the wonderful things about the work at Pompeii is just how much is adding to what we have understood so far. Aside from the topics which we strongly associate with the site there are other aspects, such as a Temple to Isis there. Also the fantastic work by Jashemski who set in play
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In a recent visit to the British Museum I took in the Legion Exhibition. One of the exhibits was highly impactful, it was the skeleton of a man who died at Herculaneum. However, this wasn’t some victim who we knew nothing about. This individual had items which indicated what he was and even what he
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The cult of Isis and ancient Rome. The below image is a bit of a curious one. Halloween fancy dress or lycanthrope in casual attire? The answer is less fun but much more revealing, it’s a priest of official wearing a mask of Anubis. This jackal-headed deity belonged to the Egyptian pantheon, but this fresco
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Pompeii expert Dr Jess Venner. I hope you enjoyed the discussion and the insight Jess was able to give. Jessica Venner is an AHRC-M3C funded Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham studying Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology. Her thesis is on the subject of subsistence and commercial food cultivation in the urban gardens of
Gardens in Pompeii. Podcast episode shownotes. Read More »
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Prior to AD 79. Vesuvius had been a threat to those living near it much earlier than those at Pompeii and Herculaneum would later bear witness to. The Avellino eruption, dating to 2,000 – 1,500 BC had buried local bronze age settlements and this eruption surpassed the brutality of the later famous one. It has
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