The ancient Roman alternative to daylight saving time; An hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer it could be as long as 75 minutes and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.
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DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were
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Pompeii: new paintings found
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Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll!
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The dirty secrets of Pompeii: Brothels, art, and more
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Making the 2000 year old "pizza" from Pompeii
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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Pompeii ruins show that the Romans invented recycling
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Digging deeper into Pompeii's past
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There’s new evidence for what happened to people who survived Vesuvius
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Archaeologists have just unearthed an inscription in Pompeii that suggests the Ancient Roman city might have been destroyed a full two months later than previously thought
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Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought
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