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Pompeii excavations reveal equid skeleton at House of the Chaste Lovers

The remains of an equid were discovered in a bakery area of Pompeii's House of the Chaste Lovers complex, offering new insights into the role of working animals in Roman daily life and during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. An equid skeleton has been uncovered during archaeological excavations in a bakery area of Pompeii's House of the Chaste Lovers complex. The Insula of the Chaste Lovers is one of the most important excavation sites in Pompeii because it preserves an entire...

Euronews 3d ago

Pompeii victim ID'd as a likely doctor

Archaeologists used a combination of advanced CT scans and 3D digital reconstruction to identify one of the Pompeii victims who died in 79 CE during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as most likely having been a Roman doctor, according to an announcement by the Pompeii Archaeological Park. As previously reported, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, spewing molten...

Ars Technica Science 22d ago

The club I wanted to join was waiting in Pompeii

analysis What Pompeii taught me about the sisterhood and the power of patience Sat 6 Jun 2026 at 8:00am I think I've finally found the cult I want to join. Given that Groucho Marx's maxim about abhorring club membership is one I have long taken to heart, this is significant and made even more so because I suspect any woman reading this will immediately want to join too. The secret women's society I'm referring to involves copious amounts of wine, food and feverishly dancing around to wild...

ABC Australia 4d ago

‘Pompeii, but in the middle of a massive city’: the ice age fossil site hidden in Los Angeles

The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, an active urban ice age excavation site, is undergoing a major refurbishment after nearly five decades. This site houses remains of over two million ice age plants and animals, such as mastodons and saber-toothed cats, which became trapped in the tar pits.

The Guardian UK 17d ago

‘Pompeii, but in the middle of a massive city’: the ice age fossil site hidden in Los Angeles

The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, an active urban excavation site, houses remains of over two million ice age flora and fauna. This unique location features fossils of creatures such as mastodons and saber-toothed cats trapped in natural tar pools. The site is undergoing a major refurbishment after nearly five decades.

The Guardian World 17d ago

BGT semi-final success 'overwhelming' for farmers choir

The Hawkstone Farmers' Choir has successfully reached the semi-finals of the BGT competition. They achieved this by performing the song "Pompeii" by Bastille on Saturday. The choir described their success as "overwhelming."

BBC UK 17d ago

5 European tourist spots where Brits are being charged more since Brexit

5 European tourist spots where Brits are being charged more since Brexit It's the time of year where Brits flock to the continent to explore its cultural delights, but many will find that in addition to longer queues at passport control, they could paying more to visit top attractions Exploring Europe has become a lot trickier, and more expensive, since Brexit. From 90-day restrictions to the new Entry/Exit System (EES) that non-EU residents need to go through, the days of carefree hopping...

Daily Mirror 7d ago

Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

Physically, Homo sapiens is not that special in the animal world. But the species has discovered ways of finding food and beating the odds of survival in every habitat from jungle to Arctic wasteland. It has also come to obsess Alice Roberts, who started off in medicine, becoming a surgeon and an anatomist.

New Scientist 6d ago

BGT final farmers 'blown away' by support

BGT final farmers 'blown away' by support Two Herefordshire farmers who will perform in Saturday's Britain's Got Talent final said they were "blown away" by the support and believe their message of talking about mental health has "transcended the agricultural industry". Andy Owens from Marden and Will Rogers from Presteigne are members of The Hawkstone Farmers' Choir - a collective put together by TV farmer Jeremy Clarkson. They wowed the judges in last Saturday's semi-final, singing...

BBC England 11d ago

Italian teenagers discover 1,800-year-old Roman luxury house underneath their high school gym

Italian teenagers discover 1,800-year-old Roman luxury house underneath their high school gym After being notified by mischievous high school students, archaeologists uncovered a large and luxurious second-century Roman house near the Colosseum. For years, students at a high school just steps from the Colosseum in Rome have spun tales of mysterious rooms hidden underneath the gymnasium floor. Now, it turns out those rumors have more than a grain of truth to them.

Live Science 5d ago