A portable sundial that looks like a pork leg — and it was likely owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law before Mount Vesuvius erupted In 1994, Byzantine scholar Nikolaos Oikonomides argued that the ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Although the museum’s artwork was unscathed, roughly 1,400 trees on the property burned during the Palisades fire. Visible ...

A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

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An eruption of Mount Vesuvius (background) in A.D. 79 buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under volcanic ash and rock. ... that recovered fragments of unique Pompeii frescoes.

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There were no frescoes or movable relics in the damaged structure and no one was injured. ... The ancient settlement of Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

The damaged structure did not house any frescoes or movable relics. Pompeii was famously destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD ... as it “provides a complete picture of an ancient Roman ...

A minor earthquake in southern Italy has caused the partial collapse of a wall and a portion of a vault at the Pompeii archaeological site, authorities said on Thursday.