Photo Contest
March 13, 2025

Sony World Photography Awards Has Revealed the 10 Category Winners of Its 2025 Open Competition

What's the single best photograph taken in a year? It seems impossible to choose, but every year, the Sony World Photography Awards makes its selection. While the Open Photographer of the Year has yet to be announced, the organization has revealed the 10 category winners in the 2025 Open competition. Now in its 18th year, the Open competition “celebrates the ability to capture and distill a singular moment.

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Archeology
March 12, 2025

Newly Discovered Pompeii Frescoes Reveal a Different—Wild—Side of Ancient Roman Women

Newly discovered frescoes in Pompeii showcase a wilder and even debaucherous side of ancient Rome's women. The frescoes, deemed as a “megalography” given their nearly life-size scale, span three walls of a spacious banquet hall inside a home in Pompeii’s Region IX. Aside from being an exceptionally rare example of a megalography, the unearthed frescoes are distinct in their depiction of the Dionysiac procession, which celebrates Dionysus, the god of wine, festivities, and ecstasy.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.