Had an excellent tour with Alfredo - he was clearly passionate and well versed on the two sites and was able to tell us about some of the current excavation work he was involved in - all super interesting. Alfredo's English was excellent. He did a re...
* Here’s a pic of pompeii after excavation. As you can see the city is quite large, and if you’ll notice, in the center is the forum. Since it is a social area it is very accessible. Above you can see how central Pompeii would likely have appeared from overhead before it was ...
Here’s a pic of pompeii after excavation. As you can see the city is quite large, and if you’ll notice, in the center is the forum. Since it is a social area it is very accessible. Above you can see how central Pompeii would likely have appeared from overhead before it was ...
“We’d have photographs, but we’d never have enough,” he says. “Now we have these 3D-models, where we basically can return to almost any time of our excavation and see that space.” You May Also Like MAGAZINE Re-creating 2,000-year-old bread found in Pompeii, post-Vesuvius ...
Pompeii had been founded by the Oscans, but had later fallen under the dominion of Rome in the 4thcentury BCE (Before The Common Era). By 80 BCE, it had become a Roman colony, after the town had joined an unsuccessful rebellion, against the Roman Republic. ...
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Before you book your transportation to Pompeii, be sure to grab the Pompeii Pass ahead of time. This pass provides a two-hour guided tour of the archaeological site and a fast-track entrance to the city. It also includes a ride on the little train that runs from the excavation site to ...
(garbage dumps) and was able to identify evidence that the waste is primarily kitchen food preparation of olives, grapes, figs, cereals, and pulses. However, they found little evidence for crop-processing, suggesting that the food was processed outside of the city before being brought to ...
The Large Theatre was one of the first stone theaters built by the Romans, and Pompeii had these two stone theaters before the first ones were built in the city of Rome. Temple of Isis Temple of Isis East of the Little Theater is the Tempio di Iside - Temple of Isis, dedicated to the...