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Pompeii is one of Europe’s best-known archaeological sites, and the EU has decided to allocate to this beautiful spot new funds to both ensure it is well protected and to increase its capacity for tourism. Not many people are aware that the UNESCO site of Pompeii has been under excavation to varying degrees since 1748. However, and unfortunately, e...

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By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands of years ago. Unique video material has now been produced, showing their creation of a 3D model of an entire block of houses. A...

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Paradise of Exiles: Early Photography in Italy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art begins with the first photographic images to arrive in Italy, a delicate 1839–40 album of botanical negative images sent by William Henry Fox Talbot to botanist Antonio Bertoloni. The ghostly silhouettes of ferns, grasses, and other specimens, created with Talbot’s cam...

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Today, leaders from Union Station welcomed Giuseppe Finocchiaro - Italian Consul General - to our beautiful city and historic home. The special welcome included walking highlights of the Station, followed by a tour of the North American Premiere of POMPEII: The Exhibition, presented by Bank of America. During his visit, Consul General Finocchiaro t...

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It’s become a model for all of Europe. In 2011, Pompeii’s ancient walls were crumbling with each and every downpour; it had no services, was inhospitable, and teemed with packs of stray dogs. Today, that same ancient city has become a symbol of redemption for Italy, particularly the South. “The Great Pompeii Project is an example to follow, you can...

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Another of classical philology's wildest dreams is on the verge of coming true. Every so often, something lost forever suddenly re-appears.   On the eve of humanism, Petrarch rediscovered the letters of Cicero and sections of Livy. A few decades later, Poggio Bracciolini resurrected Lucretius and Quintilian.   Read more  ...

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Traveling around Naples, Pompeii, and Ercolano: with the Campania Express, you can now take the special train with a 50 minute ride. This special train makes only 2 stops, one at Ercolano-Scavi (Herculaneum) and the other Pompei-Villa dei Misteri (Pompeii), with six different per day.   The train has been started in May 2015 at the stat...

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The American University of Rome and the Sant'Anna Institute-Sorrento Lingue are pleased to announce a partnership. A Memorandum of Agreement was recently signed to signal the two institutions' commitment to work together and provide unique high quality educational experiences in Rome and Sorrento. To launch the partnership Sant'Anna will be offerin...

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by Joshua Hammer   On a sweltering summer afternoon, Antonio Irlando leads me down the Via dell'Abbondanza, the main thoroughfare in first-century Pompeii. The architect and conservation activist gingerly makes his way over huge, uneven paving stones that once bore the weight of horse-drawn chariots.   We pass stone houses richly deco...

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According to ANSA, Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini announced 80 million euros of funding for cultural projects in Italy including renovation of Rome's Colosseum and Florence's Uffizi Gallery.   Italy's superior council for cultural assets and landscape has approved the allocation of the funds for large-scale projects in 2015-2016...

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