Archaeologists in Italy have discovered intricate artwork inside a small Pompeii house that was buried in ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. The “tiny ...

has been restored The House of the Vettii, known as Pompeii's Sistine Chapel, has reopened to the public for the first time in 20 years after an extensive restoration. The house, built in the ...

Pompeii was a prosperous centre for travel and trade, where the upper class lived in lavish houses designed to display the owner’s wealth. The House of Menander (Region I) was one of the most ...

Many of Pompeii's ruins have floor mosaics (file pic) Italian police have detained a British woman suspected of removing some small Roman tiles from a mosaic at Pompeii. Italian media say she was ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny house in Pompeii that is filled with elaborate – and sometimes erotic – frescoes, further revealing the ornate way in which Romans decorated ...

Despite its small size, the house "strikes us for the high level of its wall decorations," the statement said, noting they were of similar quality to much larger and more opulent homes near the new ...

ROME - The ancient Roman archaeological park of Pompeii in southern Italy said on Nov 8 it would ... including an uncommonly small house revealed last month with finely preserved frescoes of ...

ROME (Reuters) - The ancient Roman archaeological park of Pompeii in southern Italy said on Friday it would cap daily visitor numbers at 20,000 ... Archaeologists are still making discoveries there, ...

Pompeii celebrates the "International Day of Persons with Disabilities" with an important recognition that makes it the first archaeological area in Italy to ... and welcoming house of a large ...