The discovery wasn’t the only set of impressive frescoes discovered in Pompeii ... and an amateur excavator digging up a confounding ancient Roman object. The experts made plenty of headlines ...

Dionysian Frescoes and the Cult of Bacchus The most ... Cuomo continues to provide crucial insights into daily life in ancient Rome, from economic production to spiritual practices.

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

While frescoes did not reach their height of popularity until the High Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the art was practiced long before. The first frescoes were ...

Stunning in their scale, colour and detail, frescoes can give us a fascinating glimpse of ancient civilisations. Every now and then, a new fresco is discovered which sheds further light onto how ...

This research, the result of collaboration between the Parco Archeologico di Pompei and various Italian universities, represents a significant advancement in understanding the painting techniques used ...

The ancient city of Pompeii was one of the most crucial wine centres of the Roman world ... who appears on many frescoes and archaeological fragments. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius had a ...