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Last Days of Pompei: food, from eggs to apples, preserved in lava

: Category: Inside the Vatican

One sunny autumn afternoon cano Mount Vesuvius merupted, ejecting a cloud of poisonous gases and molten ashes some 20 miles into the sky before it buried the town of Pompei under some 20 feet of ash — killing over 2,000 of Pompei's 15.000 inhabitans

Caravaggio, Condemned to death, Painted his own Portrait

: Category: Inside the Vatican

In April 1951, in Milan’s Palazzo Reale, the scholar Roberto Longhi curated the first exhibition in history dedicated to Caravaggio, whose name had been forgotten for over three centuries.

For the First Time Ever, Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Will Be Exhibited in Rome

: Category: La Voce di New York

"Treasures of the Pharaohs" will explore everything from the rulers' divine authority to daily life and artistic achievements over 3,000 years

From Eggs to Apples: Gastronomy in Ancient Herculaneum

: Category: La Voce di New York

An exhibit that sheds light on daily life in Pompeii’s “twin” , also destroyed by Vesuvius

Gastronomy In Ancient Herculaneum

: Category: Epicurean Traveler

The only eyewitness account of the two-day eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD handed down to us are two letters written by Pliny the Younger, a Roman lawyer, magistrate and author and sent to the historian Tacitus some 25 years after the disaster.

St. Mary Major: a New “Must” for Pilgrims in2025

: Category: Inside the Vatican

The Basilica of St. Mary Major was consecrated on August 5, 434, soon after the Second Council of Ephesus in 431, when an assembly of bishops affirmed the doctrine that Mary was the Mother of God. Thus, the Basilica is the first Marian sanctuary in the western world.