A Plea for Help After a Quarter-Century in a ‘Penal Tomb’

But it is quite rare for prisoners to spend decades in isolation. “We’ve only identified 12 prisoners outside of Texas who have spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement and who aren’t on death row,” said Easha Anand, one

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Pompeii tomb reveals formerly enslaved man’s rise to wealth and power

Pompeii Archaeological Park Archaeologists working in Pompeii recently unearthed the tomb and partially mummified remains of a man who died a few decades before the eruption. The man, Marcus Venerius Secundio, according to his epitaph, had once been enslaved, but

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