Hygienic conditions in Pompeii's early baths were poor, according to isotope analysis

The city of Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now reconstructed the city's water supply system based on ...
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DNA analysis upends long-held assumptions about Pompeii victims’ final moments

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The eerie remains of Pompeii seem untouched. But new findings reveal a little-known postscript

The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever frozen under ...
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“Erato Loves…”: Pompeii Graffiti Reveals Romance and Raunch

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...