Paola Totaro
04 August 2022
The bones of Waterloo
Around 20,000 people died in the battle, yet mass graves have never been found. Now, we are getting closer to the truth
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Sex in the shadow of Vesuvius
A new exhibition celebrates Pompeii’s erotic art and artefacts, many hidden from public view since their excavation in the 19th century
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Notre-Dame after the fire
The world watched Paris’s greatest treasure burn. Two years on, restoration is beginning in earnest
Read the full article21 April 2022
A stain of corruption haunts Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s credentials as a reformer and the future of the Vatican’s finances are being laid bare as a financial crimes mega-trial unfolds in Rome
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