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The Amphitheatre of Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatres. It is located in the ancient city of Pompeii, near Naples, and was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, that also buried the city of Pompeii and the neighbouring town of Herculaneum. Six bodies were found during the excavations. [2]
Fascinating artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city doomed and buried by Mount Vesuvius’s deadly eruption in AD79.. The most impressive discovery is ...
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Here and in similarly decorated spaces in Pompeii, the owner is concerned with displaying size and quantity and not a harmonious whole. [31] The room to the north of the peristyle featured delicate ivy and stylized flowering vines as decoration. [32] Ducks and lotus leaves also appear together as decorative motifs. [33]
The sketches of gladiator stick figures were discovered during excavations in recent months in Pompeii, a once-thriving city that was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago.
Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii.
English: from Pompeii, Regio VI, Insula Occidentalis, The Three Graces, 1st-century BC-1st century AD, Fresco, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. 9231). Dimensions 53 × 47 cm (20.8 × 18.5 in)
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