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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 335
Pages: 335
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
This work explores the question of Vesuvius as an object of study in the early modern science of volcanism from the investigations and opinions of humanists and
Language: en
Pages: 370
Pages: 370
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Fawcett
Recently placed in charge of the Aqua Augusta, the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples, Roman engineer Marius Primu
Language: en
Pages: 32
Pages: 32
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09 - Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
One peaceful August day in A.D. 79, the people of Pompeii were going about their business—baking bread, eating lunch, lounging in the afternoon heat. Suddenly
Language: en
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Archaeological and historical studies of ancient Pompeii.
