Researchers have found nearly 100 doodles of everyday people hidden in the walls of Pompeii before the volcano destroyed ...

Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion decorated the corridor wall outside of a theater.

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else.

Ancient messages and drawings are among hundreds of inscriptions that archaeologists recently uncovered on a wall in Pompeii.

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

Cutting-edge technology has revealed previously unseen graffiti on a backstreet in Pompeii. A sketch of two gladiators in combat and the beginnings of a love declaration are among the 2,000-year-old ...

From the very beginning, archaeologists noticed copious amounts of graffiti on the outsides of buildings throughout the ancient Roman world, including Pompeii. The Art Archive / Alamy Rebecca Benefiel ...

The lives of the ancient Romans might seem impossibly different from our own today, but newly discovered graffiti shows that some things never change. Archaeologists have discovered 79 previously ...

Think of it as the earliest version of the Facebook wall post: Ancient Pompeii residents revealed their social networks through graffiti on actual walls. Now, a new analysis of some of these scribbled ...

The once-thriving city of Pompeii, near Naples, was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, preserving buildings, objects, and graffiti under meters of ash. A love note, a gladiatorial ...