Archaeologists have digitally reconstructed a house in Pompeii to show what life must have been like for a rich Roman banker 2,000 years ago. The Italian city was famously buried in volcanic ash —and ...

Additionally, the renderings match narrative and visual descriptions from the time. Pliny the Younger's description of his Villa Laurentina and the frescoes found in the grand hall of the House of the ...

When we try to conjure images of the ancient city of Pompeii, we often think about the stark and tortured casts left over from one of Europe’s worst natural disasters. Over 1,000 people were killed ...

The mental image of the city of Pompeii, crystallized by the mold of ash and lapilli that preserved its ground level for ...

After the catastrophic earthquake in Italy in 1980, the Pompeii city curator invited the international research community to help document the ruin city, before the state of the finds from the volcano ...

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Thousands of years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying and burying the city of Pompeii in ash and stone. Researchers from Lund University have used a new branch of advanced digital archaeology to ...