Pompeii has reopened the House of Apollo Citharoedus, one of the largest ancient homes at the site, after months of restoration work. The house is now open to the public for the first time in years.
The home sits along...
A small nocturnal bird long associated with Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, has made the ancient ruins of Pompeii its year-round home, archaeological park officials said. The little owl, known scientifically as Athene noctua, has symbolized wisdom since...
Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence (AI) to reconstruct the final moments of a man who died trying to escape the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The reconstruction, developed in collaboration with the University of Padua,...
Fast food is not just a modern convenience. In 2023 archaeologists discovered an ancient Minoan street food stall in Akrotiri on Thera island (widely known as Santorini) that dates back 3,600 years, long before Ancient Greece's classical period.
The fascinating...
Pompeii’s household rituals carried scents from far beyond the Roman world. A new study of residues inside two ancient incense burners from household altars suggests that people in and around Pompeii burned local plants along with imported aromatic resin,...
Pompeii is most famous today for being utterly destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD. However, it had a long history before that, and only part of it involved the Romans. In fact, for most of its history,...
A new study suggests the Roman siege of Pompeii may have involved an ancient repeating weapon, a kind of early "machine gun" linked to Rhodes, based on unusual marks still visible on the city’s northern walls.
The study, published in...
The ancient Greek machine gun, the polybolos, is one of the most fascinating warfare inventions in antiquity, shooting and reloading multiple bolts.
The Greek word "polybolos" (Greek: πoλύβολος) translates to "firing many shots." In actuality, the weapon was a variant...
For the first time, a new permanent exhibition at Pompeii presents the full story of the ancient city’s destruction through a museum display centered on the eruption, its victims, and the casts made from their remains.
.The exhibition brings together...
Ancient agriculture is returning to one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites as Pompeii brings vines back to land buried by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. The project reconnects the ruined Roman city to a farming tradition...
