The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

Stunning Roman frescoes ... Greek god Apollo trying to seduce the priestess Cassandra. The second piece shows Prince Paris meeting Helen of Troy. About a third of the "lost city" of Pompeii ...

Art and sculpture, wine and pasta, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Vatican City and Venice are just some of what Italy is famous ...

Buildings in the “Minoan Pompeii.” Credit: Norbert Nagel ... and resplendent public art, including frescoes, which bear witness to a highly-developed, and elegant culture, this begs the question of ...

Watch Pink Floyd’s performance of One Of These Days from their restored Pompeii concert film which arrives in cinemas on April 24 ...

Since 1998, researchers have found evidence of over 50 cremation burials in the necropolis. The current excavation, called "Investigating the Archaeology of Death in Pompeii," has been ongoing ...

This produced the largest cache of pigments ever found in Pompeii, 150 pots in all ... the originals “ensuring that restored sections of frescoes are chemically and visually consistent with ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life ... Archaeologists found the statues at the top of a huge mausoleum featuring and entry wall, at ...