Recent discoveries in Pompeii include an eerie painting of a child, spectacular dining room, and more insights into the ...

the room was previously accessed in the 17th and 18th centuries by individuals who likely stole the statues that once sat in the wall boxes. The only written account of what happened to Pompeii ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an intricately decorated blue room, interpreted as an ancient Roman shrine known as a sacrarium, during recent excavations in central Pompeii in Italy. The Italian ...

Archeologists have uncovered etchings made in charcoal on the wall of a courtyard at Pompeii, the Italian city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The primitive sketches ...

As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. According to most modern accounts, the story pretty much ends there: Both cities were wiped out ...

Archaeologists have uncovered charcoal sketches drawn by children in Pompeii, depicting possibly violent fights they may have witnessed. The sketches of gladiator stick figures were discovered ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park The findings came during restoration work at the famous Pompeii archaeological park. The drawings were in charcoal and assumed to be from the hands of a child ...

the blood spilled in the arena was real and that few saw it as a 'problem' with all the possible repercussions on the psycho-mental development of children from Pompeii." In a video posted by the ...

Amid the unearthed sculptures and grand artwork that display the affluence of the once-grand city of Pompeii before its ... "The blood you were seeing was real," said Zuchtriegel.

Children’s sketches depicting violent scenes of gladiators and hunters battling animals have been uncovered at the archaeological park of Pompeii ... in the arena was real and that few saw ...

the blood spilt on the arena was real.” Witnessing such brutal scenes must have had an impact on the psychological health of small children living in Pompeii, archaeologists said. The drawings ...