Villa Cuomo, an archaeological gem discovered in 1974 in the town of Sant’Antonio Abate, continues to reveal its secrets. This ancient rural complex, located on Via Casa Salese, southeast of Pompeii, was buried under three meters of lapilli during the catastrophic eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD. Unlike other Roman villas in […]
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Human Footprints from the Bronze Age Left by People Fleeing a Vesuvian Eruption and Other Extraordinary Discoveries in Campania
During improvement works on the Diramazione Nocera-Cava dei Tirreni gas pipeline in the municipalities of Nocera Superiore, Nocera Inferiore, Roccapiemonte, and Castel San Giorgio (province of Salerno, Campania) in Italy, an impressive archaeological legacy has come to light, spanning from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. These discoveries, the result of meticulous research conducted over […]
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The Controversial Date of Pompeii’s Destruction: August 24th, as Pliny the Younger Wrote, Remains the Most Probable
In the vast network of historical and scientific debates, few enigmas have sparked as much fascination as the exact date of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD. This catastrophic event continues to be a subject of study and controversy among archaeologists, historians, and natural science […]
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Villa Where Emperor Augustus Passed Away Unearthed at Somma Vesuviana
Archaeologists from the University of Tokyo have found on the northern slopes of Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy, part of a building that could have been the villa of the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Through radiocarbon dating and physicochemical analysis of the volcanic rock covering the building, it has been demonstrated that it was in […]
