A room decorated with peacocks reappears in a Roman villa near Pompeii after centuries hidden by volcanic ash.

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

Dozens of graffiti messages have been discovered at Pompeii, shedding light on the violence and intimacy of everyday life—as well as its cosmopolitan social fabric. Archaeologists have analysed 79 new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Italy is making its artistic treasures more accessible to people with disabilities. Michela Marcato, who has been blind since ...

Italy's art-filled cities have no shortage of tourists, but they haven’t always been welcoming to visitors with visual ...

The ruins of a fountain, water tower, and buildings on a corner in Pompeii. Layers of anthropogenic carbonate can help researchers understand the water systems used in ancient cities. Shown here are ...

Since its rediscovery in the 18th century, the ash-covered Roman city of Pompeii has yielded tantalizing glimpses into the everyday lives of ancient people. One of the most valuable aspects of Pompeii ...

A vast Roman villa discovered three feet below a park in Port Talbot, south Wales, has potential to be the town's very own Pompeii, the archaeologists behind the find have said. The team, comprising ...