Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.
New love notes found on a Pompeii wall reveal personal messages, sketches, and confessions hidden for centuries.
The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...
Advanced technology uncovers ancient graffiti, including love notes and sketches, offering fresh insights into daily life in ...
Reuters reports that Louis Autin and Eloïse Letellier-Taillefer of Sorbonne University and Marie-Adeline Le […] ...
Among the standout new discoveries made is a scribbled drawing of gladiatorial combat on the corridor’s southern side, near ...
The once-thriving city of Pompeii, near Naples, was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, preserving buildings, ...
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Pompeii’s public baths were unhygienic until the Romans took over
Before the Romans captured Pompeii, the famous town was run by the Samnite people – and a dip in their public baths might ...
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Romans regularly soaked in filthy, lead-contaminated bath water, Pompeii study finds
A study of limescale buildup in an early bathing facility at Pompeii has revealed that the water was replaced only once per ...
Pompeii’s famous public baths weren’t always the polished, near-sterile wellness centers we tend to imagine. A new scientific study has found strong chemical signs that some of the city’s earliest ...
It is remarkable what, with enough ingenuity, can be gleaned from the most unpromising of materials – such as Roman limescale ...
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