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Ancient ‘Machine Gun’: Traces of legendary multi-shot weapon found in Pompeii

Pompeii's archaeological excavations have primarily centred on the severe eruption of Mount Vesuvius during AD 79; however, new investigations have shifted the spotlight to a violent chapter nearly 170 years earlier. Using advanced laser scanning and 3D digital imaging, Adriana Rossi, the lead researcher and team, discovered various unique and…

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New permanent exhibition shows plaster casts of Pompeii victims frozen at the moment of their death

A new permanent exhibition has opened in Pompeii that shows plaster casts of people killed in the Mount Vesuvius eruption, frozen in their final moments

The Independent UK

Catastrophic casting: Mount Vesuvius eruption victims feature in landmark Pompeii exhibition

Casts of victims of Pompeii’s tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display together for the first time in a new permanent exhibition. The residents are captured in the positions in which they died, alongside everyday items, buried for centuries under lava and ash.

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Why were Pompeii residents wearing heavy wool during August eruption? Researchers reveal new evidence

Pompeii has always felt strangely frozen in time. Streets halted mid-step. Meals left on tables. Bodies caught in their last movements. Mount Vesuvius erupted in late August, in the sticky heat of a southern Italian summer in CE 79.

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Pompeii victims were wearing woolen cloaks in August when they died — but experts are split on what that means

Some of the victims at Pompeii were wearing woolen cloaks when they died, even though it was August, new research finds.

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Memento Mori: A mosaic that predates Mount Vesuvius' eruption in Pompeii and reminds us that we will all die

A famous mosaic from Pompeii holds lessons for today.

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'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius

"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who made it out and left records. And that shocked me."

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Mount Vesuvius closed to hikers as 2-mile-wide wildfire erupts on famous volcano

Local media reports that a new wave of flames opened up overnight

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Wildfires close Mount Vesuvius trails while fierce blazes continue in France

French officials says heatwave in southern Europe complicates efforts to contain biggest wildfire since 1949

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Italy's Mount Vesuvius closed to tourists as wildfire rages

Italian firefighters on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the volcano near Naples closed to tourists.

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After Mount Vesuvius erupted, Romans returned to Pompeii and stayed for 400 years — but it was likely anarchy

New excavations in Pompeii's Insula Meridionalis quarter have confirmed long-held suspicions that people returned to the ancient Roman city after the volcanic eruption in A.D. 79.

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Prosciutto di Portici: 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

This small bronze sundial was a portable way of telling time, but it may have made you hungry.

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Conte masterminds ‘most unexpected’ scudetto with single-minded Napoli

Few expected the team to challenge this season but the club held off Inter to spark Neapolitan fireworks that could put Mount Vesuvius to shame

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“How Good Is Your Timeline Memory?”: Find Out By Taking This 25-Event History Challenge

Do you remember everyone's birthdays by heart? Or do you have them written down somewhere, just in case? Dates can be tricky, and history is no different. We all know about the sinking of the Titanic, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and the Battle of Waterloo. But when it comes…

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At least four dead, one critically injured in cable car crash in southern Italy

The accident occurred just a week after the cable car Castellammare di Stabia, popular for its views of Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, reopened for the season.

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Life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii show that ancient women didn’t just have to be wives to make a difference

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls. And it’s easy to understand why: there’s plenty on offer within this monumentally well-preserved town,…

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Mount Vesuvius eruption turned man's brain partly into glass

Scientists made the surprise discovery while examining the body of a man who was killed in the ancient city of Herculaneum

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‘Brain vitrification’: new research shows how the Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain to glass

A young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was likely overcome by a fast-moving cloud of gas at a temperature of more than 500°C in a process that transformed fragments of his brain into glass, according to new research.

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Pompeii volcanic eruption was so hot it turned brain to glass

Fiery ash cloud that dissipated quickly was likely first deadly event during Mount Vesuvius eruption

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'Incredible moment in history:' Particle accelerator and AI offer first peek inside 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now decipher thanks to AI and a particle accelerator.

The Independent UK

Badly burnt scroll digitally unwrapped to provide first look in 2,000 years

The scrolls, believed to contain Greek philosophy, were destroyed by the 79AD Mount Vesuvius volcanic eruption

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4,000-year-old footprints near Pompeii show people fleeing Mount Vesuvius eruption thousands of years before the famous one

Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near Pompeii.

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Earth from space: Italy's 'ticking time bomb' plays peek-a-boo through a mysterious hole in the clouds

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up through a strange gap in the clouds.

The Conversation

Pompeii comes to Australia, and ancient and contemporary stories of disaster and loss converge

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

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Cretaceous 'Pompeii' of China isn't what we thought

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago. But new research says this isn't how things happened.

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