The Pompeii Archaeological Park just rolled out its first Pompeii AI reconstruction — a digital rendering of a man who died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, clutching a terracotta mortar over his head like a makeshift helmet. The project, developed with the University of Padua’s Digital Cultural…
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Sometimes the Ground Really Does Give You Money
A man in Neuville-sur-Saône, France was digging a hole for a swimming pool and hit something solid. Not rock. Not a pipe. Something else. What came up were five gold bars and a pile of gold coins, wrapped in plastic bags and buried in his own backyard. Once the local…
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A Roman Soldier Walks Into a New Orleans Backyard
How a 2nd-Century Headstone Became Louisiana Lawn Décor It’s not every day you find a 2nd-century Roman tombstone while trimming the hedges — but this is New Orleans, where time and logic both sweat through their shirts before noon. When Tulane anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband Aaron Lorenz started…