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Larger photographs on pompeiiinpictures
We would like to put larger photographs on www.pompeiiinpictures.com. The current photographs are reduced in size to two thirds of their 640 by 480 size in order to fit more computers out there.We are not sure whether the newer netbooks with 10 inch screen will be able to view them properly, if we increase them to full size. Will they resize to fit? Will they disappear off the edge of the screen? Do we … Read entire article »
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Looted artifacts being returned to Italy from NYC
NEW YORK — Two stolen ancient artifacts are being returned to Italy from New York City. An Italian government representative is taking possession of them at a ceremony Wednesday. The artifacts are a Pompeii plaster wall painting and a Corinthian vase for mixing water and wine. They were recovered by immigration and customs officials in June. Both items had been scheduled for auction in New York before they were discovered to have been stolen. Immigration officials said the vase may have been illegally introduced into the art market by Giacomo Medici (JAH’-kuh-moh MEH’-dih-chee) in 1985. The art dealer was convicted in Rome in 2004 of conspiracy to traffic in antiquities. The wall painting was reported stolen in Italy in 1997. Original article-with photos … Read entire article »
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Google adds Pompeii to its Street View
Google has added Pompeii to its Street View application, allowing internet users to take a 360-degree virtual tour of the ancient Roman city. Italy’s culture ministry says it hopes the move will boost tourism to the site, state news agency Ansa reports. Among the ruins visible on the search engine’s free mapping service are the town’s statues, temples and theatres. The city was buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 and was not discovered until the 18th Century. The volcanic debris preserved many of the city’s buildings, frescos, silverware, mosaics and other artefacts. “Giving people a chance to take a virtual stroll through Pompeii will give an extraordinary boost to Italian tourism,” Ansa quoted Mario Resca of the culture ministry’s heritage promotion department as saying. The Google Maps service, launched in 2007, provides panoramic … Read entire article »
Pompeii and the Roman Villa Exhibition Arrives in Mexico
Two centuries before our era, the region of Campania became the favorite place of Roman emperors-from Julius Caesar to Nero- and aristocrats to relax, due to the beauty of the Bay of Naples. Pompeii, Herculaneum and nearby villages represented leisure for some and work for others, like artists. A hundred pieces, which reveal the luxury and sophistication that this Mediterranean zone reached before the Vesuvius erupted in 79 of the Common Era, arrive to Mexico as part of the exhibition “Pompeya y una Villa Romana: Arte y Cultura alrededor de la Bahia de Napoles” (Pompeii and the Roman Villa. Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples), to be opened at the National Museum of Anthropology in November 2009. As part of the cultural exchange program between Mexico and Italy, the National … Read entire article »
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A Pompeiian Spectacle for a Sunday Night
Professor Martin Winkler, internationally renowned expert in Classics and Film Studies, wowed Gusties on Sunday night, Nov. 1st with his lecture “The Last Days of Pompeii: From Fact to Fiction and Film.” Professor Winkler took us through a whirlwind tour of receptions of Pompeii across the centuries and via a range of media, from books to the stage to the movie screen. The lecture kicked off a number of events throughout the week, during which Professor Winkler visited classes, met with students and faculty, and presented a rare Italian film of Vergil’s Aeneid to members of Eta Sigma Phi on Wednesday. Many thanks to Professor McHugh, who arranged the visit, and to other departments across campus who assisted in planning and hosting Professor Winkler! Source … Read entire article »
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Pompeii vineyards provide new wines
Pompeii is being brought back to life by new wines produced in the vineyards dating back to Roman times. The wines are only made from grapes grown inside the ancient city which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. Bottles will be sent to embassies worldwide and the millions of visitors a year can sample it. It is not known, however, if the wine will go on sale. Pompeii Tourist Board said: “Wine was important to the ancient Vesuvians.’ … Read entire article »
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A Day in Pompeii – Australia’s most popular museum exhibition
THE Melbourne Museum closed its doors last night on the most popular museum exhibition ever seen in Australia, A Day in Pompeii. Since it opened on June 25, one in 10 Victorians, or 325,000 people, visited the collection of films about, and artefacts from, the lost city of ancient Roman times. The figure exceeded the museum’s projected audience by 60 per cent. “I’m delighted to be wrong,” said Patrick Greene, chief executive of the Melbourne Museum. “We’ve never had an exhibition beyond 170,000 before.” Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, by comparison, said the 2003 Star Wars exhibition was the most popular it ever staged, attracting 230,000 visitors. The National Gallery of Victoria earlier this month reported 330,000 visitors to its Salvador Dali Liquid Desire exhibition, which like Pompeii was badged as a Melbourne Winter Masterpiece and given … Read entire article »
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Sydney academic unearths the secret of Pompeii’s bones
The ruined Roman city of Pompeii continues to yield secrets, this time in a book by a Sydney University academic in the first systematic study of human bone remains. Resurrecting Pompeii by Dr Estelle Lazer, archaeologist at Sydney University, was launched earlier this month. The book discusses the information gained from looking at the skeletal remains of victims of the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Although Pompeii has been continuously studied since 1748, early scholars were seduced by the more glamorous artefacts and wall paintings yielded by the site. The less attractive evidence, the bones, was largely ignored. Until Dr Lazer’s work, there had not been a systematic study into victim profiling information that could be gathered from studying bones, including sex, age, general health and height and population affinities. Dr Lazer found … Read entire article »
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Pompeii exhibition in Melbourne has drawn record-breaking crowds
Pompeii exhibition in Melbourne has drawn record-breaking crowds Article from: Herald Sun Simon Plant August 05, 2009 12:00am ANCIENT Pompeii is one of Italy’s hottest tourist attractions. But an exhibition about the doomed Vesuvian city in Melbourne is drawing its own record-breaking crowds. Yesterday, Melbourne Museum welcomed its 100,000th visitor to A Day in Pompeii. The lucky visitor, Caroline Neilson, of Box Hill South, scored a $100 Pompeii prize pack and free museum membership. “To have that many people through in just over five weeks is simply phenomenal, museum manager Brett Dunlop said. “These figures mean it’s on track to be one of the most successful touring exhibitions ever held at the museum.” A Day in Pompeii, a Winter Masterpieces exhibition exclusive to Melbourne, has proved so popular the museum is extending its opening hours. From August 15, the Pompeii … Read entire article »
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Italian archaeologists find lost Roman city of Altinum near Venice
The bustling harbour of Altinum near Venice was one of the richest cities of the Roman empire. But terrified by the impending invasion of the fearsome Germanic Emperor Attila the Hun, its inhabitants cut their losses and fled in AD452, leaving behind a ghost town of theatres, temples and basilicas. Altinum was never reoccupied and gradually sunk into the ground. The city lived on in Venetian folk tales and historical artefacts but its exact position, size and wealth gradually faded into obscurity. Now, using aerial photography of the region, Italian archaeologists have not only located the city, but have produced a detailed map revealing its remarkably intact infrastructure and showing it to be slightly larger than Pompeii. The abandonment of the city and its subsequent preservation makes it an archaeological time capsule, a … Read entire article »
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