The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii

This second edition of Alison E. Cooley’s accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was...

By the late 1840s, a new genre of literature revealed deep concerns with corruption in the growing urban centers. City mysteries exposed a dark underworld of the metropolis, leadin...

This paper considers the houses of Neoclassical British architect Sir John Soane (1753–1837): his famous House Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; and the considerably less-wel...