As Greece prepares to celebrate Carnival, many people ask if the Ancient Greeks also did the same. The answer is not as easy ...

Archaeologists in a new discovery unearthed a “megalography” in the ruins of Pompeii that has revealed the wilder side of the ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have discovered rare life-size frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious rituals in the ...

A series of frescoes spanning three walls of an ancient banquet hall was recently discovered in Pompeii. The enormous, ...

A rare fresco reveals Pompeii’s hidden cults, while NASA uncovers a strange spiral structure at the edge of our solar system.

A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall with a procession of ...

Uncovered in what was once a spacious banqueting hall that opened onto a garden, the frieze dates back to the 1st century BC, ...

The extraordinary images that emerged from ash show Dionysian followers dancing and hunting, which are akin to frescoes of the nearby Villa of the Mysteries that were found 100 years ago.

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...

Archaeologists exploring what Pompeii was like before it was famously destroyed by Mount Vesuvius have made a huge discovery ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered breathtaking frescoes from the 40-30s BC, depicting the Greek god Dionysus and his ...

Discover an extremely rare cycle of paintings unearthed in Pompeii, depicting a lively ritual involving Dionysus, the deity ...