The room's color is rare, and would have demarcated the area as a place of importance for ritual activities and storing sacred objects.

Frescoes lining the room's painted black walls depicted mythological characters and subjects from the Trojan War.

A fresco of two Greek mythological siblings Phrixus and Helle has been found in the ancient Roman city.

The enslaved were locked up with donkeys and forced to grind grain essential to the baking of bread.

No physical restraints were found, leading researchers to believe its residents were controlled in other ways.

New archaeological techniques and methodology, the archaeological park's director said, "allow us to understand better the inferno that in two days completely destroyed the city of Pompeii, killing…

In an interview, Guidice discusses the restoration of such recent discoveries as the house of the Vettii.

The train is expected to start running in 2024 and shorten the journey between the two cities.

Archaeologists have been excavating a previously unexplored section of the site.

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