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Herculaneum
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Mediterranean museum and archaeological site admission
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Latest: Greece announces free entry to museums and archaeological sites
Cultural institutions in Italy and Greece have announced various initiatives to provide free or reduced cost access to museums and archaeological sites. In Italy, several locations including the Capitoline Museums, the
Mount Vesuvius eruption used for geological dating
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Latest: Pompeii eruption date revised to October
Researchers from the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of Padua are utilizing the historical 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to refine the precision of argon-argon dating. By using eyewitness accounts fro
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Mount Vesuvius eruption destroys Pompeii and Herculaneum
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