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New TV miniseries based on Harris’ Pompeii
Ridley Scott will be the producer for a 4-hour miniseries based on Robert Harris’ 2003 novel. No details yet as to where it will be filmed, who will star, when it will be broadcast, but it could be fun once it comes out! (via The Wrap and rogueclassicist) … Read entire article »
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New on pompeiiinpictures in April
Street Views.A new street view plan has been added to pompeiiinpictures. It can be accessed from the new Streets button on left hand side of every page.Every street in Pompeii is on the plan. Clicking on any street will take you to the photographs of that street. This includes the unnamed vicoli as well.The technology may not be as advanced as Google Street View but our coverage is we believe the most comprehensive, with every … Read entire article »
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Interview: Fabrizio Pesando
I was invited to interview Fabrizio Pesando for Blogging Pompeii, who you’ll all know as the head of the Department of the Classical World and the Ancient Mediterranean at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. He has decades of research and fieldwork experience, but here I’ll only mention some of his key Vesuvian projects. He’s the director of the Project “Pompeii Regio VI” which is a joint project with the universities of Perugia, Trieste, Siena and … Read entire article »
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Exhibition of plaster casts at the Boscoreale Antiquario
As absurd as I find the term “frozen victims” for the plaster casts of people & animals at Pompeii, the exhibition about the history of the casts and their creation might be a fascinating and useful one for academic types and tourists alike (provided tourists can find their way to Boscoreale). It’s my hope that the exhibition problematizes the casts a bit more than the BBC article does, portraying the casts as straightforward and scientific. I believe … Read entire article »
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Topography of Pompeii
I’m hoping that the BP community can help me make a better representation of the AD 79 topography of Pompeii. The map above shows both the progress made so far and the areas that are not represented in enough detail, or covered at all. The contours are based on published sources of elevation data (blue dots). In this image, the data is from the map in H. Eschebach 1995, but clearly more points are needed, … Read entire article »
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Third Herculaneum Conference
The Friends of Herculaneum Society is holding its Third Herculaneum Conference 11-13 June 2010 in Ercolano, Italy. The programme includes talks by the new Director of the British School at Rome, Prof. Christopher Smith, and by the immediate past Director, Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; presentations by members of the Herculaneum Conservation project; site visit (including the Villa of the Papyri and the new boat museum) with Dr Maria Paola Guidobaldi, Director of Excavations, and Dr Domenico … Read entire article »
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Pompeii Tours Audio Guide – Is it Worth It? – The Truth
It is also true in a way that you can enter, let’s say, into Pompeii, walk around without a guide, and find your own way out. You can even do it with a guidebook. Here is what I have found not just with clients, but also with my own travels across the world. Without a human for Pompeii guide you miss a kind of interpretation of the meaning of the place and especially what it could mean to you today, not only in the ancient times. Since we are all different, it is really impossible, in my opinion, to package the personal meaning for you up in a written guide or an audio guide. You can come close if it is well done, but it can never be personalized. Personalization it’s the most important … Read entire article »
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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 »
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