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Spectacular bathhouses used to entertain Pompeiian’s in private home

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

History-buffs can walk the streets of ancient Pompeii in a multi-sensory summer blockbuster at the National Museum of Australia.

In the amphitheatre of Gladiator II, Ridley Scott trains his lens on fighters and emperors – but no account of ancient gladiators is complete without its devotees.

The world-famous Pompeii archaeological park introduced a daily limit of 20,000 visitors on Friday, the latest Italian tourist site to take action against overcrowding.

Nearly four million people visited the main Pompeii site in 2023, a third more than the previous year

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Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago. But new research says this isn't how things happened.

Fresh insights into the people killed in Pompeii after Mount Vesuvius's explosion in 79 AD were discovered by researchers using DNA sequencing

New information from the study of Pompeii plaster casts has challenged previous interpretations

Scientists studying DNA find one person in scene of cowering family was a man and not a ‘mother’