A town frozen in timeA modern-day visitor to Pompeii, enjoying blue skies and the warmth of the Italian sun, will find it hard to imagine the …
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8 OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE FRESCO PAINTINGS FROM POMPEII
An important eyewitness account by Pliny the Younger (A.D. 61-113) offers us a glimpse of that fateful day in A.D. 79 when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried an entire town and most of its inhabitants. Pliny, whose uncle died in the disaster, vividly describes sheets of fire and enormous pumice stones raining down from the volcano as well as people running desperately towards the sea, terrified for their lives.
The Hellenistic Period started in 323 BC. after the sudden death of Alexander the Great at the age of 33. His thirteen-year rule was in its entirety …
The Vasari Sacristy is located in the Sant’Anna dei Lombardi church in Naples. Another name for the church is the Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto. The …
When we think of the Ottoman Empire, it immediately and almost inevitably sparks our imagination. It evokes an orientalist fantasy that is populated …
The Medici family is one of the most powerful and influential groups in European history. They innovated new banking systems and laid the groundwork …
