The first thing that comes to mind when I think about Pompeii is the haunting plaster casts of the bodies found there. Ghostly renderings of the last moments of these people’s lives, they’re both shocking and captivating at the same time....
How the horrors of the Great War gave rise to Dadaism Artists are known to draw inspiration from a wide range of sources, but one of the most significant artistic movements of the 20th century arose not from the recognition of beauty or the...
What the lost city is still revealing about Roman life Pompeii was, in many ways, an ordinary Roman city. It stood in Campania, on the Bay of Naples, a region prized in antiquity for the same things that still draw people there today: fertile...
The remarkable and controversial life of Dian Fossey There are few conservationists whose names have become as synonymous with the animals they studied as Dian Fossey. The American primatologist dedicated her life to observing and...
