Archaeologists from the University of Tokyo have worked at the Somma Vesuviana site since 2002 but only announced their discovery of the earlier villa in April this year.Image credit: © 2024 Institute for Advanced Global Studies, University of Tokyo; (CC BY-ND 2.0 DEED)
Did they find the poisoned fig trees that killed him?
“Don’t eat the figs.”
Suetonius
The original boy named Sue
:)
Pingus
The buried cities of Vesuvius are the gift that keeps on giving. The cities of Stabiae, Herculaneum and Oplontis are really yielding some great stuff.
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