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  1. The Time Tunnel #1 and #2 Review: Gold Key Goes Full Temporal Mayhem!
    Two issues. Five adventures. Zero chill. Gold Key...
    comiccrusaders.com/reviews/com
    #The Time Tunnel #Gold Key Comics #Paul S. Newman #Tom Gill #George Wilson #Irwin Allen #classic comics #retro comic reviews #Silver Age comics #science fiction comics #time travel comics #television adaptations #licensed comics #Abraham Lincoln #Pompeii #Mars comics #Comic Crusaders

  2. On the way to the Villa of the Mysteries, Mount Vesuvius looms over the ruins of ancient #Pompeii. A reminder of the destructive forces of nature that extinguished a thriving city. 📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/2sinNyT #photography #travel #AncientBluesky #Italy

    Vesuvius looming (Pompeii, Ita...

  3. #Pompeii #DNAevidence suggests victims not as they seemed

    Using #DNA taken from fragmented #skeletalremains, researchers found an adult holding a child, long thought to have been a mother, was actually a man unrelated to the child.

    news.sky.com/story/pompeii-dna

  4. One more notable #Roman woman -- #Eumachia! Patroness of #Pompeii -- and, well, we all know what happened there...

    Eumachia (before 64 AD), “was a priestess and prominent citizen of Pompeii” (Lefkowitz, 159). Though she was not from a prominent family, she inherited a fortune “from her father, a brick manufacturer” (Lefkowitz, 159), and married “into one of Pompeii’s oldest families” (Lefkowitz, 159).

    She used her fortune to “erect a number of public buildings in Pompeii” (Salisbury, 307), and was “patroness of the guild of fullers (cleaners, dyers and clothing makers)” [people who dealt with #wool] (Lefkowitz, 159).

    Eumachia was an example of how “imperial [Roman] women, while they had no formal role in government, were highly influential nevertheless” (Salisbury, 307).

    #AncientWomen #Histodon #RomanHistory #RomanWomen #Autonomy #WomensRights