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

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

New Pompeii graffiti has been found, which shows that human behaviour never changes. The pictures show gladiators fighting, a message of love, a goodbye and a story about a sex worker.

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

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

79 new graffiti found in a Pompeii theater corridor reveal love notes, gladiator duels, and insults, offering a vivid glimpse into ancient Roman street life.

Archaeologists have discovered 79 previously unseen pieces of graffiti scratched into the walls of an alley in Pompeii that ...

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 ...

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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 ...