In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...

Notable results include the identification of the first known use of a new gray color in Pompeian art. The presence of barite ...

Hidden beneath volcanic ash for nearly 2,000 years, a Roman estate near Naples has revealed breathtaking frescoes depicting ...

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A newly excavated Pompeii fresco reveals secretive Dionysian cult rituals, showcasing initiations, hunting, and mythical figures.

Greco-Roman art has been studied for centuries through the lens of its ... Putti making perfumes in a Roman fresco from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii. Credit: Yair Haklai / Wikimedia Commons The ...

together with the fresco of the Villa of the Mysteries [a similar painting discovered in Pompeii over 100 years ago] constitutes a one-of-a-kind, making Pompeii an extraordinary testimony to an ...

A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall with a procession of Dionysian revelers. Brightly colored and nearly life-sized, the newly ...

The only other large wall painting depicting a Dionysian ... tells the London Times’ Philip Willan. Even so, the frescoes at Pompeii offer valuable insights into what worship of Dionysus, also known ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the large fresco in the ... Romans fused leisure, art, and political ambition within their homes. Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern-day ...