Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck,…
A look at the interiors of Pompeian houses…
Map of the ancient town…
A 5th or 6th century synagogue has been discovered in the costal city of Saranda, Albania…
Rick Jones, of Bradford and the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii, shares his urgent views on the conservation and future of the town…
Interpreting Pompeii Many of the older studies of Pompeii seem rather dry today. Architecture, mosaics and frescoes were classified into types. Houses…
Paul Zanker’s Pompeii: public and private life (Harvard, £15.95) is another book in the same vein. The German author is an archaeology…
What is the best book to read for a basic introduction to Pompeii? Paul Wilkinson has just produced Pompeii: the last day…
The crisis in Vesuvian archaeology runs deep. Pompeii is fast degrading, with walls crumbling, frescoes erased by the sun, plaster dropping off…
Pompeii has featured in fiction many times. The first-century Roman novelist Petronius set his Satyricon in the Bay of Naples, and one…
The archaeology of a Roman technological revolution: the cheiroballistra…
Exciting finds fromsite on the river Cetina in Croatia…
Neil Faulkner describes a forthcoming TV series on Caesar's campaigns in Gaul…