Remains of the historic tsunami that succeeded the famous Lisbon earthquake (1755) have been identified in Martinique by archaeologists and geophysicists. This etching from 1755 shows the ruins of Lisbon in flames and a tsunami submerging ships in the port. It has long been the archetype of the t
We werent there, cant come up with an answer absolute about what ancient Rome was really like . We dont really know how vivid the red color was in some peoples clothing, or how dirty their streets were, or what the sources really tell us; in fact, in a perfectly literal sense we dont know what we ar
Egypt has just presented the gilded wooden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun, being restored for the first time since its discovery in 1922. The gilded wooden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in a sterilization and stabilization chamber, in the laboratories of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Cairo (Egypt). E
If in our no. 2 The underworld of Rome, we dealt with the sex business in Pompeii at that time, here we present two exhibitions on eroticism and sex in ancient Rome with which you will discover the habits and customs of that time, considered later, especially in the Middle Ages, libertine and even a