The work offers “another insight into daily life at Pompeii” and represents the “first time an area of this type has been excavated in its entirety” and analyzed with modern technology, Massimo Osanna, the departing director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, said in a statement Saturday. Human life in […]
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Snail, Fish and Sheep Soup, Anyone? Savory New Finds at Pompeii
ROME — Wine turned white with crushed fava beans. A soupy concoction of snails, sheep and fish. If these don’t sound particularly appetizing today, they appear to have been all the rage in ancient Pompeii, as evidenced by ancient leftovers found during excavations this month at the archaeological site of […]
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Socially Distant, Except for the Dogs, Sheep and Chickens
The show is a biodiversity sequel of sorts to “Green Porno,” the theatrical lecture she adapted from her captivatingly odd Sundance Channel series of film shorts, in which a surreally costumed Rossellini would act out the mating habits of bees, say, or earthworms, relating scientific facts with dramatic hilarity. “Sex […]