Smithsonian Magazine - 10.2019

Vesuvius engulfed Pom- peii, Pliny the Younger recalled, in darkness that was “as if the light has gone out of a room that is lo ...

60 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 Massimo Osanna is restoring public faith in Pompeii after years of neglect; 3.5 million peop ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 61 The robust campaign that Osanna has directed since 2014 marks a new era in old Pompeii, whic ...

It was Fiorelli, Osanna tells me, who had liquid plas- ter poured into the cavities left in the volcanic ash by bodies that had ...

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Still off -limits, Regio V will some- day be opened to visitors. One-third of Pompeii’s 170 acres remain buried and not studied ...

66 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 A recently exposed fresco shows Adonis, a Greek, with Venus, a Roman goddess. My- thology re ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 67 A remarkably intact terra- cotta amphora found in Regio V’s House of the Garden would have h ...

68 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 beneath her chin. Osanna says the explicit fresco is “exceptional and unique for its decisiv ...

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70 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 may have taken refuge in his home in the hours after the initial explosion, leaving only whe ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 71 October 23, 79 A.D. Mary Beard, the Cambridge Uni- versity classicist and reigning authority ...

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