The cult of Isis and ancient Rome. The below image is a bit of a curious one. Halloween fancy dress or lycanthrope in casual attire? The answer is less fun but much more revealing, it’s a priest of official wearing a mask of Anubis. This jackal-headed deity belonged to the Egyptian pantheon, but this fresco …
Pompeii podcasts. The original podcast I did focuses on the history of Pompeii, how it developed and what it was when disaster struck. Pompeii wasn’t a city Rome founded or had a great deal to do with until it expanded it’s influence southwards and even then it was a place which held its own identity. …
Pompeii expert Dr Jess Venner. I hope you enjoyed the discussion and the insight Jess was able to give. Jessica Venner is an AHRC-M3C funded Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham studying Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology. Her thesis is on the subject of subsistence and commercial food cultivation in the urban gardens of …
Prior to AD 79. Vesuvius had been a threat to those living near it much earlier than those at Pompeii and Herculaneum would later bear witness to. The Avellino eruption, dating to 2,000 – 1,500 BC had buried local bronze age settlements and this eruption surpassed the brutality of the later famous one. It has …
