Pompeii is limiting its daily visitor numbers | CNN
3 days ago · Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images. CNN —. Authorities at Pompeii in southern Italy are introducing a daily limit of 20,000 visitors as part of efforts to protect the ancient site. The measure ...
New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii
3 days ago · This photo provided by the Archeological Park of Pompeii shows casts number 21 and 22, made in 1914, from Casa del Cryptoportico in Pompeii, Italy. Credit: Courtesy of MIC, Archaeological Park of ...
Italy's Pompeii to cap daily tourist numbers to 20,000 - BBC News
5 days ago · Pompeii to cap daily tourist numbers at 20,000. The Roman archaeological site of Pompeii will limit the number of daily visitors to the site to 20,000 a day after a steep rise in visitors. A ...
Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii upends long-held …
6 days ago · Located about 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) southeast of Naples in what’s now Italy’s Campania region, Pompeii was geographically ideal due to its port, according to the study.
Pompeii archaeological park sets daily visitors’ limit to combat …
6 days ago · ROME (AP) — The Pompeii archaeological park plans to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalized tickets starting next week in a bid to cope with over-tourism and protect the world heritage site, officials said Friday. The move comes after what authorities called a record summer that saw over 4 million people visiting the ...
Pompeii DNA evidence contradicts long-held assumptions about …
6 days ago · Pompeii's victims were later immortalized by archaeologists who used plaster to fill the voids left by their bodies and observers have long created stories based on these casts, one of which was ...
Italy's Pompeii to cap daily visitor numbers to 20,000
5 days ago · ROME, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The ancient Roman archaeological park of Pompeii in southern Italy said on Friday it would cap daily visitor numbers at 20,000 as a response to its surging popularity. The ...
Striking Roman paintings uncovered in Pompeii after nearly ... - NBC News
Apr 11, 2024 · Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii.
A blue painted shrine is the latest discovery in Pompeii ... - CNN
Jun 4, 2024 · Archaeologists have unearthed an intricately decorated blue room, interpreted as an ancient Roman shrine known as a sacrarium, during recent excavations in central Pompeii in Italy.
Rare and expensive blue shrine unearthed in Pompeii after ... - NBC News
Jun 12, 2024 · POMPEII, Italy — Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a sacred room has been unearthed at Pompeii with painted blue walls, a rare and expensive color in the Roman city.