New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes Emily Hauser ...

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Pompeii—once a thriving city, frozen in time by disaster. We explore what remains today, uncovering haunting ruins, preserved history, and the stories of those buried alive by Mount Vesuvius.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

It is not the other Pompeii, the ancient and very sad city inhabited by slaves, revealed a year ago, but the real Pompeii ...

By Monica Shenouda ...