Dec 26
By: Jonathan Laden
Before Mt. Vesuvius erupted, the city of Pompeii housed 10,000 to 20,000 people, including many wealthy Romans who owned summer homes there. Among the other […]
Jul 31
By: Marek Dospěl
The earliest examples of demonstrably Christian art come from the catacombs, or burial chambers dug in a maze of underground galleries. Historians of art find […]
Jul 20
By: Marek Dospěl
The ancient oasis city of Palmyra—located northeast of Damascus in present-day Syria—abounds with archaeological treasures of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Owing to its crucial […]
Feb 5
By: Jonathan Laden
Scholars have long debated whether there were many survivors of the volcanic eruption in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Steven L. Tuck finds the survivors.
Jan 22
By: Jonathan Laden
As announced by the Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen, using magnetometer surveys, a joint German-Tunisian team has completed a mapping of the city of Meninx. During the Roman Empire, Meninx was an important port off the coast of North Africa, with trading ties to Italy Spain, Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.
Dec 9
By: Jonathan Laden
For thousands of years, different peoples have interacted with each other by fighting wars and also by trading. In addition to the conquests that built […]
