Researchers in Pompeii believe they may have found the first physical evidence of an ancient Greek ‘machine gun’ known as polybolos. Image:Damage near the Herculaneum Gate at Pompeii. Credit: Mike ...

Herculaneum was buried under roughly five times the amount of ash that Pompeii was. Similarly, the second victim had also been lying on their bed when the cloud descended.

The Mount Vesuvius Eruption Interactive, new to the 2025 iteration of the exhibition, takes visitors through the stages of the volcanic eruption and the pyroclastic cloud that caused such different ...

Humans First evidence of gladiator fight with lion seen in Roman-era skeleton. A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his ...

When Vesuvius erupted on August 24 and 25, A.D. 79, some 2,600 inhabitants perished in Pompeii alone (a plaster cast of a child found under a staircase). Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita ...

The amphitheatre, once packed for gladiator fights and wild animals, is one of the finest in existence. After Dr Hay showed Hollywood's very own gladiator around in 2023, Russell Crowe came back last ...

At a gladiator match in ancient Pompeii, tensions exploded and spectators became fighters in a riot. Aired 02/19/2025. A Brutal Gladiator Fight in Ancient Pompeii.

You can see these in person if you visit Pompeii or Herculaneum. Gladiator 2 does, also, correctly depict the use of a wax tablet, as Lucilla digs out and looks wistfully at some of Lucius's old ...

According to Dr. Dave Lunt, an Associate Professor of History at Southern Utah University, excavations at Pompeii revealed “over 10,000 separate graffiti inscriptions, drawings, and paintings ...

The sheer number and variety of graffiti in ancient Greece is truly astounding. In the famous city of Pompeii in Magna Graecia, 37% of the graffiti that has been discovered there so far consists ...

When Mount Vesuvius catastrophically erupted in 79 C.E., it destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. But the volcano also preserved graffiti in the ancient Roman towns. Thanks to this, we know the story of ...