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 ...

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

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.

Two sets of human remains, a variety of paintings, and a handful of childrens’ doodles were recently found in Pompeii ... Venus (Aphrodite), Apollo, and Bacchus (Dionysus).

A bronze statue at Pompeii’s Temple of Apollo, with Mount Vesuvius visible in the background (photo by Graham O’Keeffe via Flickr) Earlier this month, the University of Chicago Press published ...

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 ...