Ongoing digs at a Roman villa in the town of Villajoyosa in Spain, have revealed more than 4,000 fragments of wall paintings.

Archaeologists make breakthrough as life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb - ANALYSIS: New discoveries are ...

Take one Pompeiian example, set up by the freedman Publius ... and surmounted by the astonishing relief sculpture of the woman and man. They’re standing side by side, but not touching.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so ... and to learn from their example. Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town ... to learn from their example. Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and ...

"It was quite a surprise to find it there a few centimeters beneath the ground." Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis, right beneath the main entrance gate to Pompeii, just uncovered a ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute ... who borrowed and adapted famous Hellenic examples for local audiences. One of the Torlonia collection ...

After the blast, what remained of the Parthenon’s metopes, or relief-carved panels ... The east, for example, retold the mythical clash between the Olympians and the Giants, while the north ...

This practice spread throughout the Mediterranean, influencing Roman and later Arabic and European trade systems ... The connection to carob seeds remains a fascinating example of how ancient trade ...