World's deadliest volcano in Africa waiting to explode Mangalorean.com London, March 31 (IANS) Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world's deadliest volcanos, is waiting to explode and turn Goma, a city of a million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, into a modern day Pompeii, a Roman town completely destroyed by ... |
 Myrtle Beach Sun News | Newsmakers | Pawleys Island, Murrells Inlet Myrtle Beach Sun News In the pre-competitive age division, Roman Pompeii, 11, received third place for ensembles and placed in the "top 12" for this category. Twenty-six LDAA dance students competed in the Feb. 11-13 ENCORE Dance Competition for the Stars at Myrtle Beach ... |
 The Guardian (blog) | The Tate's Mark Rothko exhibit: a room with a view of the subconscious The Guardian (blog) He went to Pompeii and studied the ancient Roman murals there. Deep reds, abstract and empty, and illusory depictions of doors leading to spaces beyond, are characteristic of ancient Roman fresco painting. But perhaps the most tantalising potential ... |
Turkish treasures among the ruins The Republic ... Hercules gate, the goddess Nike and the ruins of Hadrian's Temple, with Roman terrace houses directly across the road. Adorned with mosaic tile floors, marble walls, columns and frescos in the style of Pompeii, these homes were for the wealthy. ... |
 Wine Spectator | The Cult Wine of 121 BC Wine Spectator On one tavern wall preserved at Pompeii, the wine list can be seen: “For one as [a unit of currency; a loaf of bread cost two] you can drink wine; for two, you can drink the best; for four, you can drink Falernian.” This is suspicious, though, ... |
 Past Horizons Archaeology News | Archaeological research visualises urban life in Ancient Cities Past Horizons Archaeology News Reconstructions of daily life in ancient Roman cities such as Pompeii are plentiful, thanks to centuries of archaeological research. But that is not the case for the later Roman or 'late antique' period (AD 300-650) that saw the long transition from ... |
 South Yorkshire Times (press release) | Boiling mud and Bavarian stomps on field trips South Yorkshire Times (press release) Then an afternoon was devoted to exploring Pompeii – the Roman town buried by ash in AD79. Marion Nugus, Faculty Leader of Humanities, said: “We visited the Solfatara fields with boiling mud pools and sulphurous vapours which came out of a crater ... |
 Arts and Collections International | Grand Eighteenth-Century Tourists Arts and Collections International Later in the century the archaeological excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum put these on the tourist trail, as sites for the study of the ancient world, sources for yet more riches to be brought home, and templates for decoration and decorative art ... |
Italian teen gang extorts money from moms at playground The Australian Parents have asked the police to watch over the park. It is a few yards from one of the southern Italian city's major attractions, a museum housing the most celebrated frescoes and statues from the Roman city of Pompeii, the report said. |
VIDEO: Oakland County executive cautions against cutting unemployment benefits Royal Oak Daily Tribune "Detroit lost more people than Pompeii did in one fell swoop," he said. Pompeii was an ancient Roman city in Italy that was buried by the eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Patterson urged people moving to the suburbs from Detroit to be ... |