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Give us Pompeii, our daily bread
Milling about (making bread) in the ancient city. Episode X of A Historian's Pompeii: The Ultimate Guide
Cars beep, the tram dings, and a moped flashes past, its rider shouting at a man in rags who is slowly crossing the road, an old bag o...
What Could You Buy in Pompeii? Inside Its Shops and Workshops
Episode IX of A Historian’s Pompeii: The Ultimate Guide
Pompeii’s fast-food counters are famous. More than eighty thermopolia have been identified across the city, their masonry counters and sunken ceramic jars instantly recognisable to th...
The poor of Pompeii lived in apartments (and storage cupboards)
Holed up in apartments, houses, and storage cupboards of the ancient city. Episode VIII of A Historian's Pompeii: The Ultimate Guide
“But where are the posh neighbourhoods?”, a friend asked me in earnest as we walked the uneven streets of...
Expert Insight: The House of the Vettii, Pompeii
Last year, while finalising the manuscript for my book, I finally stepped inside the House of the Vettii. This was a moment I had been anticipating for years. After an extensive and painstaking restoration spanning nine years, and closure t...
Wealth and status in Pompeii's wealthiest house
Exploring the House of the Faun in Pompeii with Dr. Jess Venner; Episode VI of XX in A Historian’s Pompeii: The Ultimate Guide
On one of Pompeii’s busiest streets stands a house that would have both impressed and intimidated passers-by. Be...
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Postdoctoral Ancient Historian at the University of Oxford, author of The Lost Voices of Pompeii & storyteller of history’s forgotten people. First for archaeological news.
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