An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city ...

Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town ... third of the city is still ...

Examine art, design, architecture, urban spaces ... Visit Pompeii to see the elements of an ancient Roman city. During the visit, you will get a sense of everyday life, domesticity, and different ...

Credit: D. Atfield / Colchester Museums The Colchester Vase adds to a series of findings that indicate the presence of Roman spectacles in the city, such as fragments of wall paintings depicting ...

half-god founders of the city, twins Romulus and Remus. Its namesake museum contains busts of Roman emperors, statues – including a famous one of Marcus Aurelius – and paintings by Caravaggio ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Some 430 years after the Lombard ... from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. The loans allowed curators to bring together three of ...