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Features January/February 2016

Giving new life to some of Pompeii’s dead
(Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy/De Agostini Picture Library/L. Pedicini/Bridgeman Images)
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A wall painting from the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii dating to the 1st-century B.C. or the 1st-century A.D. depicts a garden filled with dozens of local species of plants and birds, a birdbath, herms supporting plaques showing sleeping women, and theater masks. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy/De Agostini Picture Library/L. Pedicini/Bridgeman Images)

The three-story House of the Golden Bracelet on the Vicolo del Farmacista was one of the most opulent in Pompeii, its w

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  • Features January/February 2016

    The Many Lives of an English Manor House

    A major restoration project at a grand estate reveals centuries of a nation’s history

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    (Angelo Hornak / Alamy Stock Photo)
  • Letter from Hawaii January/February 2016

    Ballad of the Paniolo

    On the slopes of Mauna Kea, Hawaii’s cowboys developed a culture all their own

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    (Samir S. Patel)
  • Artifacts January/February 2016

    Head of Medusa

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    (Courtesy Michael Hoff)
  • Digs & Discoveries January/February 2016

    Reading the Invisible Ink

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    (Images by Lazarus Project / MegaVision / RIT / EMEL, Courtesy Beinecke Library, Yale University)