Noisy, smelly, excavated Pompeii

A Roman Town and Mary Beard's historical balancing act . . . (see a link to Mary Beard's in the column on the right of this page)

Watch a working model of the ancient clockwork device that some call the world's first computer

Antikythera: A 2,000-year-old Greek computer comes back to life

Watch a working model of the ancient clockwork device that some call the world's first computer

The language of Venice is older, less artificial and more influential than Italian itself . . .