A large-scale fresco in an ancient banquet hall "sheds light on the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world." ...

"In 100 years' time, today will be remembered as historic because the discovery we are presenting is historic." Archaeologists excavating at the doomed Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by ...

Pompeii's Secret Underworld ... huge houses decorated with beautiful frescos and filled with exquisite marble statues, and architectural wonders-- from monumental buildings to a huge central ...

Researchers uncover that ancient Greek statues were not just painted and dressed but also perfumed, adding a new dimension to ...

I, personally, find no harm in the statue of ———— from Pompeii. It interests me in itself, as a thing of beauty, and as an index of the feeling of the people who produced it. It was ...

Pompeii [is] an extraordinary testimony to an ... all the figures in the frieze are depicted on pedestals, as if they were statues but their movements, complexions and clothing make them appear ...

A room-sized, 3D diorama at the National Archeological Museum of Naples in Italy, depicts the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how ...

A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has revealed a little-explored aspect of ancient art: the use ...