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Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston review – you will cringe so hard you turn to cheese

The actor emotes his way through Vesuvius’s catastrophic eruption in a docudrama that is embarrassing and exhausting – but undeniably entertaining. Prepare to be Hiddlestoned!

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Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston – the tale of ordinary Romans’ hopeless heroism is tearjerking television

The Avengers star teams up with real-life scholars for a look at the eruption of Vesuvius. At points it’s elegiac and moving, at others it’s majestic and brutal

The Guardian - UK

‘Pompeii, but in the middle of a massive city’: the ice age fossil site hidden in Los Angeles

La Brea Tar Pits – the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world – gets a mammoth face lift for the first time in nearly 50 years

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11 ancient archaeological discoveries that may completely rewrite everything we know about human history

Human history feels straightforward when seen in textbooks. A neat timeline with a clear rise from simple tools to complex cities. But archaeology keeps disturbing that picture slowly and quietly. Then suddenly. A buried temple appears that is older than farming itself. A lost city rises out of the jungle.…

The Times of India

Pompeii victims were wearing woolen cloaks in August when they died — but experts are split on what that means

Some of the victims at Pompeii were wearing woolen cloaks when they died, even though it was August, new research finds.

LiveScience

Marillion add second Pompeii date for July 26 after selling first show in two minutes!

UK prog rockers Marillion will play the world-famous Pompeii amphitheatre on July 25 and 26

Louder

Opeth announce live show at Pompeii's legendary Amphitheatre for July 2026

Swedish prog metallers Opeth will also play concerts in Halifax, Dublin and Rättvik in support of The Last Will And Testament

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Marillion announce live at Pompeii show for July 2026

UK prog rockers Marillion. will play the world-famous Pompeii amphitheatre on July 25

Louder

Pink Floyd at Pompeii: What are the greatest live albums of all time?

This week saw the first official release on vinyl of Pink Floyd's legendary 1971 set played in Pompeii - showing to what extent the British band were once one of the greatest live acts in the world. With so many great live albums out there, we give you our Top…

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“You can see we were stoned. Dave and I were completely out of our brains”: The epic story of Pink Floyd’s Live At Pompeii, the prog classic recorded next door to a volcano

Lights! Camera! Chaos! How Pink Floyd made their 1972 album Live At Pompeii

Louder

“It's like saying, ‘Give a man a Les Paul, and he becomes Eric Clapton. It's not true’”: David Gilmour and Roger Waters hit back at criticism of the band's over-reliance on gear and synths when crafting The Dark Side of The Moon in newly unearthed clip

The clip is featured in Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, the newly restored version of the band's groundbreaking Live At Pompeii film

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“There’s a danger we could become slaves to our own equipment – and in the past we have been”: Watch a new video clip of Pink Floyd making The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd release a new clip from restored concert movie Pink Floyd at Pompeii -– MCMLXXII, filmed as the band worked on The Dark Side Of The Moon

Louder

How can we ethically display the dead in museums? What about resin casts of those who died violently in Pompeii?

We are used to seeing dead bodies in movies and TV shows, but how should we feel when presented with a dead person from the ancient past in a museum?

The Conversation

“I was unusually nervous… You may be doing exactly the same set, but it can have a completely different vibe.” When David Gilmour revisited Pompeii and faced the ghosts of Pink Floyd

Safer pyrotechnics, local hero status and the benefit of a Wallace & Gromit movie helped make his 2017 concert movie a very different experience from Floyd’s 1972 release

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The iconic 1972 concert film 'Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii' has been remastered for 4K IMAX

Pink Floyd are coming to an IMAX near you, with a fully restored 4K version from the original 35mm film.

The Independent UK

What is ‘dark tourism’? Why tourists visit destinations with tragic histories

Places where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia, draw thousands of tourists a year – Amelia Neath explores why people choose to visit these locations

International Business Times

Pompeii's New DNA Analysis Challenges Centuries-Old Assumptions About Victims' Lives

A recent DNA study has upended long-held theories about the people who died in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, revealing unexpected details about the demographics and connections among the victims.

Evening Standard

Plan to cap number of Pompeii visitors at 20,000 a day to stop overtourism

Italian site sees record numbers and managers are looking to better handle the flow of tourists

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The Independent UK

Another Italian tourist site brings in strict restrictions

The changes start next week

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We’ve Been Wrong About the Pompeii Victims All Along

A paper on 14 victims from Pompeii describes how DNA analysis shows a different story behind the relationships of the individuals than what historians thought.

The Guardian - AU

‘Confronting and compelling’ artefacts from ancient Pompeii to go on show in Canberra blockbuster

Digital projections and household objects at the National Museum of Australia offer a glimpse into lives of everyday people from 2,000 years ago – and the tragedy that befell them

Chicago Sun-Times

The last days of ‘Pompeii’? Not until January after MSI extends exhibition

The move lets more visitors see the show, now expanded with additional pieces buried more than 2,000 years ago in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Italian Conductor Muti to Visit Syrian Refugee Camp in Jordan

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti plans to visit Syrian musicians living in the vast Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on the sidelines of his annual Roads of Friendship concert series that aims to use music to build bridges and help those affected by war. Muti will conduct Italian and Jordanian musicians…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pompeii: Rebirth of Italy’s Dead City that Nearly Died Again

In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. Then in this century, the excavated Roman city appeared alarmingly close to a second death, assailed by decades of neglect, mismanagement and scant systematic maintenance…

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