On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...
A growing number of researchers are turning to the Pompeii's graffiti to better understand the lives, humor and concerns of ordinary people nearly 2,000 years ago. Spoiler alert: They liked gladiators ...
An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...