Photos Of Pompeii » Archive for March 2010
Blogging the BBC
Just spotted filming on location: Mary Beard and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill with the production company Lion TV. Well, hardly spotted as I was helping make sure that things worked out for them at Herculaneum, but couldn’t resist blogging about a fellow blogger. You can follow Mary’s time filming in the Vesuvian area all this week on her blog A Don’s Life, and the BBC should be showing the new documentary in late autumn in the UK at … Read entire article »
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Destruction of Pompeii – Rediscovering the Forgotten City – Boosh News (press release) (blog)
Destruction of Pompeii - Rediscovering the Forgotten CityBoosh News (press release) (blog)Pompeii is the city that is a ruin and is a partly buried Roman town located close to the modern Naples in the Italian region of Campanile. ... … Read entire article »
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Doctor Who visits Sunderland – Sunderland Echo
Telegraph.co.ukDoctor Who visits SunderlandSunderland EchoAnd Lawrie has followed Karen's career fanatically – including a previous spot in Dr Who as a Roman soothsayer in 'The Fires of Pompeii'. ...Who's that girl?Inverness Courierall 124 news articles » … Read entire article »
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Yesterday I got the chance to compare Tony Blair in the flesh with Pierce … – The Guardian (blog)
Yesterday I got the chance to compare Tony Blair in the flesh with Pierce ...The Guardian (blog)In the event Pompeii never made it, as happens in movies. Harris had interrupted writing his Roman series ("Cicero is just Mandelson in a toga," one friend ...and more » … Read entire article »
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Beware of the Dogs– Philippians 3.2 – Beliefnet.com (blog)
Beware of the Dogs-- Philippians 3.2Beliefnet.com (blog)Especially in wealthy homes there were guard dogs, as we can see at Pompeii and elsewhere where we find the famous warning 'beware the dog (or dogs". ... … Read entire article »
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Pompeii cartoons
Thanks to David Emery for sending in these links to some Pompeii-related cartoons – here and here. Enjoy! … Read entire article »
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Exhibition: Pompei e il Vesuvio. Scienza, conoscenza ed esperienza
New exhibition about Pompeii and Vesuvius opens tomorrow in the Auditorium of Pompeii. Here is the press release from the SANP: MOSTRA – INAUGURAZIONE. Piazza Anfiteatro, Pompei – Ingresso libero – Apertura al pubblico 30 marzo ore 11,00 Pompei e il Vesuvio, Pompei e i suoi scavi tra scienza e mito: la storia e le suggestioni di un sito unico al mondo raccolte in una mostra laboratorio che si propone come la miglior introduzione alla scoperta di … Read entire article »
Filed under: Exhibitions, Pompeii
Publication: proceedings of the 2008 Vesuviana conference
The proceedings of the 2008 Vesuviana conference have just been published – a huge number of people contributed so well worth checking out the contents on the AnteQueum website.Congratulations to the University of Bologna team! … Read entire article »
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NetVibes page for Pompeii and Herculaneum
Check out John Larkin’s new NetVibes page of resources on Pompeii and Herculaneum. This is an excellent collection of links and images designed for teachers – but useful to us all. He describes the site here. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Herculaneum, Pompeii
VIVA ITALIA – HollandSentinel.com
VIVA ITALIAHollandSentinel.comWe went to Pompeii to see the volcanic ruins from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD It was amazing to see what has survived the eruption, ... … Read entire article »
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