Tag: antiquity

HERCULANEUM

by Pushing Time • October 30, 2015 • 12 Comments

It’s the last week in October. That means soon there’ll be lots of ghosts and goblins walking the streets begging for sugary treats. The TV stations will replay classic vampire and zombie movies. Some intrepid epicureans will delight in eating…

POMPEII

by Pushing Time • July 22, 2015 • 10 Comments

In the early afternoon of August 24th 79 AD an unusual cloud hung over Mt. Vesuvius. We know this because, Pliny The Younger, an 18 year old and one of a handful of people who survived the devastating eruption of…