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 ...

Uncovered in what was once a spacious banqueting hall that opened onto a garden, the frieze dates back to the 1st century BC, meaning it was nearly 100 years old when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...

Pompeii [is] an extraordinary testimony to an ... They were 'the direct opposite' of the 'nice' woman who emulates Venus, the goddess of love and marriage, or the woman who looks at herself ...

Venus and Adonis, also the subject of a tale ... for experts in the form of its architectural plan. Most houses in Pompeii were built around an atrium, as was common for the time.

Roman city of Pompeii in ash and 100 years after the discovery of the Villa of Mysteries, a new fresco has risen from the ...

A 'new' Villa of the Mysteries has emerged from the excavations at the Pompeii archaeological site, officials said on Wednesday. The newly found residence has a large banquet hall frescoed with a ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans ... in contrast to the feminine ideal epitomized by Venus. The newly discovered frescoes, said Zuchtriegel ...

For 'International Women's Day', on Saturday, March 8: free entry for women to the sites of the Pompeii Archaeological Park.

Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder ... the direct opposite of the ‘nice’ woman who emulates Venus, the goddess of love and marriage, the woman who ...