Experts say the frescoes on the walls of an ancient banquet hall in Pompeii are among the finest ever found in the city ...

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 city ...

painted on three sides of a large banquet room. Known as a "megalography" from the Greek for "large painting," the frieze depicts a procession, with Dionysus joined by the bacchantes, his female ...

painted on three sides of a large banquet room. Known as a "megalography" from the Greek for "large painting", the frieze depicts a procession, with Dionysus joined by the bacchantes, his female ...

The remarkable discovery, located in insula 10, offers a rare glimpse into how wealthy Romans fused leisure, art, and political ambition within their homes. Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near ...