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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 ...
An ancient figure dubbed “Pompeii’s Unluckiest Man” will likely need a new nickname, notes the New York Times.. The man initially earned the title when archaeologists found yet another ...
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.
According to the painter's widow Sylvia Willink , the other men are also self-portraits: to the left is Willink as a young man, in the middle as he imagined himself in his middle age, and to the right as an old man. [5] Willink painted Late Visitors to Pompeii with oil on canvas in 1931. It has the dimensions 92 cm × 142 cm (36 in × 56 in).
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Lucius Caecilius Iucundus (born c. AD 9, [1] fl. AD 27–c. AD 62) was a banker who lived in the Roman town of Pompeii around AD 14–62. His house still stands and can be seen in the ruins of the city of Pompeii which remain after being partially destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.
The bodies of a man and a woman have been unearthed in Pompeii, along with a cache of coins and precious jewelry, archaeologists say.
Portico and garden. The House of Julia Felix was a combination of indoor and outdoor areas built around atria, courtyards into which the main rooms opened, with enclosed gardens and private water supply; [8] Sections of the praedia allowed for indoor and outdoor seating with frescoes depicting landscapes of leisure and gardens.