Systematic excavations at Pompeii began in the mid-1700s, and the site has fascinated historians and visitors ever since.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
19 Feb. 2026
What scholars of Black history and historians talk about all the time is that in moments in which there are periods of Black social, political, and economic progress, there is often pushback to that progress.
Its sources include medieval chroniclers, eccentric antiquaries, and no doubt many denizens of the British Museum’s Reading Room.
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Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Geragos told me in August, as Combs was pursuing defamation complaints involving some of his most conspiratorial online chroniclers, that fighting her client’s case in the press didn’t come as naturally to her as to her father.
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