Archaeologists have discovered 2,000 fragments of an ancient Roman mural in the city of Cartagena on the south-eastern coast of Spain. The researchers claim that the findings inside an ancient theater ...

If you can’t make it to Pompeii to gaze upon the incredible ancient Roman frescoes uncovered there, a visit to New York University‘s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is the next best thing ...

Frescoes that once adorned Roman villas are going on display in a new exhibit that shows the tastes of ancient Rome's wealthy through landscapes and the representation of gods and goddesses. Subscribe ...

Hugo Meyer, a professor of art and archaeology emeritus at Princeton University whose scholarship focused on Greek sources of Roman art and Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, died from an accident at ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A team discovered the largest collection of Roman painted plaster in London history—shattered into thousands of pieces. It took months of ...

Rare, centuries-old Roman paintings were uncovered in the ruins of Pompeii. The frescoes were found in a dining room in the ruined city buried under ash after a catastrophic volcanic eruption in 79 ...

The destruction of Roman Pompeii in A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius buried the city in volcanic ash, was a horrific event. Plaster casts made of hollows in the dense ash, the spaces once filled by ...

How did a painted wall come to be preserved underground for two millennia? London’s history as part of the ancient Roman Empire has come to light in the form of an ornate Roman wall painting unearthed ...

A still-life fresco recently discovered in the ruins of ancient Pompeii was at first believed to depict a pizza, but archeologists say it is not the iconic Italian dish after all. The fresco was ...