Published on: 2025-07-19 20:40:07
In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted with tremendous force, burying the nearby Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum—and possibly around 16,000 people—under ash and pumice. Almost 2000 years later, archaeological investigations continue to reveal the victims’ final moments, immortalized in the solidified volcanic debris. Recent excavations at the house of Elle and Frisso—a Pompeii home named after a mythological fresco in one of its rooms—have unearthed the building’s main interior spaces. Archae
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AN EXTREMELY RARE “MEGALOGRAPHY” OF THE 1ST CENTURY BC, LIKE THE FAMOUS VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES Over 100 years since the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a large new fresco casts light on the Dionysiac mysteries in the classical world. An almost life-size frieze, known as a “megalography” (from the Greek term for "large painting"- a cycle of paintings with large-scale figures) has been unearthed in a spacious banqueting room, excavated in recent weeks in Insula 10 of Region IX in the cen
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