Archaeology Worldwide Magazine April May 2021 Zurück Ausgabe

Death on the Beach: the Herculaneum Bodies
Now we know: they were vaporised in a split second. Drawing on the latest osteological studies, Neil Faulkner explores the fate of the people of the ancient town destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.

THE INDUS ENIGMA: A CENTURY OF DECODING
In 1921, archaeology discovered a forgotten civilisation in the plains of the Indus river, in what is now Pakistan, dating from the third millennium BC. After a century’s excavation and study, some aspects of it are compellingly clear - but others remain extremely enigmatic. Andrew Robinson writes.