An ornate "blue room," distinguished by depictions of female figures on the cerulean-painted walls, was newly excavated by ...
A shrine. A banquet hall. Graffiti. The buried city of Pompeii is revealing the deepest secrets of ancient Roman life as ...
We had just uncovered stunning frescos inspired by the Trojan War painted on the splendid black walls of a banqueting hall during our excavation in ... What is most important is that the unexcavated ...
Blue was once a color reserved for the most special of occasions. One of those occasions was just unearthed in Pompeii in the ...
It's often been depicted that there were no survivors following Mount Vesuvius' eruption in A.D. 79 but the latest finds ...
On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the ...
In the Civita Giuliana area, north of the ancient city of Pompeii, a large residence called Villa Imperiali had already been ...
A new room in the central area of the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy emerged during excavations on May 2024. Courtesy of the MIC - Archaeological Park of Pompeii Experts believe some murals ...
As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum ... the cities and the excavations that started in earnest in the 1740s. But recent research has shifted ...
The excavation of the blue room is part of a larger project to “safeguard the vast heritage” of Pompeii, which includes 13,000 rooms in 1070 residential units, as well as public and sacred ...