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"Pink Floyd at Pompeii," the concert film first released in 1972, became an IMAX movie after first-cut negatives were found.
The amphitheatre of Pompeii has quite a history as a venue for spectacles. Constructed around 70 BCE, it was one of the first ...
The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, would change the way many thought of Pompeii.
The band’s slightly pretentious 1972 art movie has been magnificently restored – and should be required viewing for every ...
In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...
Dignitaries and world leaders will attend the pope’s funeral. But the thousands of people lining up to see Francis on ...
It is not the other Pompeii, the ancient and very sad city inhabited by slaves, revealed a year ago, but the real Pompeii ...
New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society all the ...
The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...
She was there on her own terms. From golden Mycenae to the ash-blasted ruins of Pompeii, the remains from the ancient world are telling us a different story from the one we always thought.
The end for these rhinos came from the slow suffocation and starvation caused by the fallout of ash from a massive Yellowstone eruption.