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Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change
by Stuart L. Fleming

Follow the way social attitudes and historical events—among them, slavery and materialism, wars and plagues—influenced how glassworking developed in the Roman world from the mid-1st century BCE to the late sixth century CE. Woven into this story is the place of glassware in Roman everyday life.
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Herculaneum Uncovered

This video explores what really happened at Herculaneum following the eruption of Vesuvius.
Pompeii, the lost Roman city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD, has long been a source of fascination to archaeologists. But its sister city Herculaneum, buried in the same eruption but to a much greater depth than Pompeii, reveals far more detail of how the Romans lived.
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