Architecture

Criminals important to the state were held there.

Thomas More was an English thinker, writer, and politician, a Christian martyr revered by Anglicans ...

Petra never recovered from the Egyptian occupation, and subsequent earthquakes sealed its fate.

Mozart’s concert as a six-year-old “child prodigy” probably took place in the palace’s Mirror Room o ...

In this room, dancers warmed up before a performance, adjusted their costumes, etc. It soon became c ...

On the city fell glowing stones (lapilli), causing fires. The clouds of poisonous gases killed all who remained in Pompeii. The so-called burning cloud had a temperature of up to 600 °C (1112 °F).

It has been destroyed by a flood which covered its floor with a half-meter layer of mud and sand.

When getting out of bed, he underwent a kind of "ablution": he was massaged, his shirt was changed b ...