A banqueting room has been excavated in Pompeii, revealing wall murals inspired by the Trojan War. The find is in block 10 of Regio IX of the Pompeii archaeological site, which was rediscovered in ...

Everywhere curator Frances Marzio turns in the 25,000-square-foot space that houses Pompeii: Tales From an Eruption — an exhibition in the making at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — she is ...

Given fresh life were frescoes from the latest fashion in Pompeii wall decoration before the flourishing city was buried under the volcanic ash furiously spewing from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Fresco, East wall, central section, House of the Triclinium, Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum of Naples: MANN 120029 Achilles on the Island of Skyros. 1st century CE.

Now, Pompeii is the fifth most-visited ancient site in the world, after Rome's Colosseum, Forum and China’s Great Wall and Xian terracotta warriors. Pompeii had a flood of 3 million tourists in ...

Instead, the show unearths the many ways in which Western art and culture have made Pompeii a fundamental metaphor for disaster. It does so with a disconcerting dash of realism. Mount Vesuvius, 1985.

This picture provided on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, by the Pompeii Archaeological Park shows the wall of an ancient Pompeian house with a fresco depicting a table with food. The fresco was found in ...

Lavish Pompeii home that doubled as a brothel has some interesting wall art Jeff Parsons Published January 11, 2023 11:57am Updated January 11, 2023 11:57am Comments ...

The destruction of Roman Pompeii in A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius buried the city in volcanic ash, was a horrific event. Plaster casts made of hollows in the dense ash, the spaces once filled by ...

The art of the Neapolitan pizzamaker was put on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list in 2017, recognized for its four phases of dough preparation and for being baked exclusively in a wood ...

A wall painting found in Pompeii ruins doesn’t depict pizza They noted that key ingredients needed to make Italy’s iconic dish — tomatoes and mozzarella — were not available when the ...

MILAN -- A still-life fresco discovered recently in the Pompeii archaeological site looks like a pizza, but it's not, experts at the archaeological site said Tuesday. Please note: The above video ...