Steven L. Tuck

Steven L. Tuck

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Steven L. Tuck is a professor of classics at Miami University in Ohio. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork and research in Italy as well as in Greece, England, and Egypt. He teaches courses on the art, history and archaeology of the classical world and has published a textbook on Roman art history and numerous academic journal articles.

Latest articles by Steven L. Tuck

'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted

By Steven L. Tuck published

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

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illustration of mount vesuvius erupting

Evidence of more than 200 survivors of Mount Vesuvius eruption discovered in ancient Roman records

By Steven L. Tuck published

After Mount Vesuvius erupted, survivors from the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum fled, starting new lives elsewhere.

Archaeology