A recent study offers new insights into the pigments used by ancient Roman artists in Pompeii, revealing how they mixed raw ...

An almost life-size frieze, or a 'megalography', has emerged which runs around three sides of the room. The cycle of paintings shed light on the mysteries of Bacchus, the Roman version of Dionysus — ...

The paintings are the latest discovery from the ancient city. Pompeii Sites/Silvia Vacca The development comes 100 years after the Villa of the Mysteries was found.

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman ... walls of an ancient banquet ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the deity of wine has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, the archaeological site said on Wednesday.