When Lily Withycombe visited the Australian Museum in 1995 to see an exhibition on Pompeii, she had an epiphany.

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Academics have spent centuries debating over the real date on which Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. Now, the park itself has ...

More than 90 artefacts from the lost city of Pompeii are set to go on show ... Roman city before and after it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption. The tragic story of Pompeii, the Roman city ...

A new study by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii gently backs up the theory that the town’s destruction might have occurred ...

Academics and armchair archaeologists still can't agree on the date when Pompeii was destroyed in a shower of volcanic hellfire ... to definitively prove the eruption occurred on August 24 ...

The original date of August 24th is derived from the letters of Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the eruption and documented ...