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A Little Curious #6: The Discovery of Pompeii

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Welcome to A Little Curious, a series of special episodes that will provide you will short and sweet bonus content about the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in art history. A Little Curious will publish in our season's "off" weeks. Enjoy!

This week’s topic: a quick snapshot of the discovery of the city of Pompeii.

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Episode Credits

Production and Editing by Kaboonki. Social media assistance by Emily Crockett. Additional research and writing by Adria Gunter.

Image: Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter in Pompeii with Mount Vesuvius in the background. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user High_Contrast.

Additional music credits

"fallen stars" by Ketsa is licensed under BY-NC-ND 4.0; "A Journey" by Nicholas Mackin is licensed under BY-NC-SA 4.0; "Festoon" by Frequency Decree is licensed under BY-NC 4.0; Ad Music: "I Knew a Guy" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under BY 3.0; Theme Music:"Angle of Light" by David Hilowitz is licensed under BY-NC 4.0

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