How can we ethically display the dead in museums? What about resin casts of those who died violently in Pompeii?
We are used to seeing dead bodies in movies and TV shows, but how should we feel when presented with a dead person from the ...
Rediscovered Renaissance masterpiece to be exhibited at Vatican Museums
The artwork, believed to be the original work of Mantegna, was recently rediscovered in the Sanctuary of Pompeii.
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‘Exceptional’ Pompeii frescos of Greek booze god & mystery rituals from Jesus’s time unearthed from ancient volcanic ash
Italian culture minister Alessandro ... Since the mid 1800s, the voids left by the bodies have been filled with plaster to recreate their final moments. Pompeii remains a well-preserved ...
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Pompeii’s secrets that are only just being uncovered
In 1860, pioneering Italian archaeologist Giuseppe ... Almost certainly a guard dog, the twisted body surely shows that it was struggling to break free, and suffocation was the probable cause of death ...
Immaculate Feather Fossil Reveals the Unlikely Preserving Power of Volcanoes
A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.
An erupting volcano turned a young man's brain into glass, researchers say
Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.
Mantegna's Lost Masterpiece Unveiled
From today, the unknown canvas by Andrea Mantegna is exhibited in the Vatican Museums, a large painting of rare power ...
‘Brain vitrification’: new research shows how the Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain to glass
A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.
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Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?
In his late-18th-century travelogue “Italian Journey,” Goethe observed that no calamity in history had given greater entertainment to posterity than the eruption that had buried Pompeii.