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'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted

Around 2,000 years ago, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated Pompeii and Herculaneum, entombing the two cities and victims within a scorching mix of molten rock, pumice, ash and gas. With ...

Pompeii’s ruins challenge Rome’s famous concrete recipe

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...
Yahoo

Researchers Decipher Herculaneum Scrolls Found at Pompeii

Researchers have virtually unfurled a Herculaneum scroll which was rescued from Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The Herculaneum scrolls, first discovered within Pompeii ...
New Scientist

Historic Herculaneum – Uncovering Vesuvius, Pompeii and ancient Naples: Italy

Embark on a captivating journey where history and archaeology come to life through Mount Vesuvius and the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Based in Naples, you will be accompanied by volcanologist ...
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Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum / Paul Roberts

"This book is published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 28 March to 29 September 2013"--Title page verso. This work explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii and ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Vesuvius preserved Herculaneum even better than Pompeii

"You will see that Pompeii had everything we enjoy today, except electricity," our guide told us as we neared the acres of ruins of the fabled Italian city destroyed by the eruption of Mount ...