It’s not the only Pompeii mansion to celebrate the god of excess. The “House of Bacchus” was excavated in 1879. One of its frescoes shows the god standing beside Mount Vesuvius, wrapped in a ...

The Temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis in Pompeii was discovered in 1764 during the initial archaeological excavations of the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It ...

The woman’s adornments suggest she was more important than the man, according to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological ... and custodian of the Temple of Venus.

More than 100 years after the discovery of the large fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries, a new one has been discovered in ...

When Vesuvius erupted on August 24 and 25, A.D. 79, some 2,600 inhabitants perished in Pompeii alone (a plaster ... painted fresco depicts the wine god Bacchus festooned in grapes before what ...

He was the guardian of the Temple of Venus. The Temple of Venus was the most popular temple in Pompeii. NARRATOR: As an enslaved person in public service, Marcus Venerius, like many others in ...

22.2 x 34.2 cm. (8.7 x 13.5 in.) This watercolour shows the early excavations at the Temple of Isis in Pompeii. It is located in the south of the city, north of the theatre, right next to the ...