“The owner of the villa must have known his Homer ... director of the archaeological park of Pompeii, the reason the walls were painted black was “to prevent the smoke from the oil lamps ...

“We can extract data from the houses and the frescoes that make the Pompeii we think we know appear in a different light.” What makes the upscale villa particularly unusual is that it was ...

The Villa of the Mysteries is one of the top attractions at Pompeii and preserves some of the best ancient Roman art around today. Most people visiting Pompeii explore by themselves on self-guided ...

painted next to a wine goblet, may have been eaten with fruits such as pomegranates or dates, or dressed with spices and a type of pesto sauce. Pompeii director Gabriel Zuchtriegel said it shows ...

Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny ... by a construction worker who’d restored the villa. “The sixteenth day before the kalends of ...