June 25, 2021

Pompeii Show Recalls How Food and Drink Ruled in Roman Era

It’s an astonishing image, both creepy and endearing: A grinning skeleton, standing erect and holding two pitchers of wine, stares directly at the viewer as if to say, “It’s party time!” The mosaic portrait, made of thousands of tiny black and white stones in the first century A.D., is one of the stars of “Last …

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