Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...

Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...

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The region - favoured by Holly Willoughby, Wayne Rooney and former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich - has taken top spot in a ...

The ancient port city isn’t as well-known as the nearby Colosseum or Roman Forum, but — as archaeologists recently ... dating between the fifth and sixth century, officials said. A glass cup almost ...

A fragment of the organic glass found inside the skull of the deceased individual in Herculaneum. Credit: Pier Paolo Petrone. In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying the Roman city of ...

Languages: English. A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud. This is the ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

"EXCEPTIONAL" frescos of the Greek god of wine that reveal mystery cult rituals have been unearthed from ancient volcanic ash in Pompeii. Covering three sides of a magnificent banquet hall, the ...

It remains a matter of debate in the archeological community, but a fresh analysis of the physical properties of the glass-like material found in the remains lends more evidence to the hypothesis ...