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Pozzuoli, 20 April (AKI) – Italian police near Naples discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman-era mausoleum buried under tons of illegally-dumped garbage. The mausoleum, which dates back to the second century AD, was found by police hidden beneath 58 tonnes of garbage in the coastal town Pozzuoli while they were impounding the site they say was used to illegally dispose of waste. …

Why is Pompeii foundational to New Testament studies? Scholars of the Roman Period in General and of the New Testament in particular treasure the ruins of Pompeii. The site was “frozen in time” from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. It is much more than a destroyed ancient site, for it “froze” in time a living picture of what …