After nearly 2,000 years of being covered by volcanic ash, this beautiful fresco gets to see the light of day. It was unveiled at Pompeii recently and depicts the life of Dionysus, the Greek god of ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered a nearly life-size fresco, or megalography, depicting the Dionysiac procession in an excavated banqueting room in Region IX.

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet ...

After nearly 2,000 years of being covered by volcanic ash, this beautiful fresco gets to see the light of day. It was ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...

Archaeologists exploring what Pompeii was like before it was famously destroyed by Mount Vesuvius have made a huge discovery ...

The House of Thiasus got its name from the “thiasos,” or sacred procession, of Dionysus. The fresco matches the Second Style ...

Uncovered in what was once a spacious banqueting hall that opened onto a garden, the frieze dates back to the 1st century BC, ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have unearthed a rare depiction of initiation rites into a secret female cult that centred on ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in the ancient ...