Few meters away, an archaeologist delicately brushed volcanic ash layers from another wall to bring frescoes in the "House of Dolphins" (so dubbed from the figures depicted) back to their original colors. Other excavators digging at the Regio V -- an area of Pompeii still largely unexplored to...
Frescoes and fast-food joints are just a few of the latest discoveries, but a small piece of graffiti is making scholars rethink the date of Pompeii's ruin.
This fast-food locale is the only one discovered with frescoes in vivid hues of mustard-yellow and the omnipresent Pompeii red decorating the counter’s base – apparently advertising the chef’s specialties. Judging by the organic remains found in containers, the menu featured concoctions with in...
frescoesnondestructive inspectioninfrared thermographyelectrical resistivity tomographyThis work reports a nondestructive multi-disciplinary approach involving infrared thermography and geoelectric methodologies applied to Villa Imperiale in the Pompeii archaeological area (southern Italy). The value of this ...
通读全文,尤其是第一段第三句“Archaeologists working at the world-famous site have uncovered a dining hall with black-painted walls covered in two frescoes of mythological characters from the Trojan War.(在这个世界闻名的遗址工作的考古学家发现了一个餐厅,墙壁涂成黑色,上面画着特洛伊战争时期神话人物的...
Share on Flipboard (opens in a new window) Pornography and technology have been sensuously intertwined for as long as humans have been knocking around the planet. Victorian sensibilities were scandalized by the truckloads of erotic art found preserved at Pompeii and Herculaneum. While frescoes and ...
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Chateaubriand’s Voyage en Italie, describes his Italian travels in the years 1803-4, during the first of his visits to the country. From France he crossed the Alps to Rome and its environs, from which he subsequently travelled to Naples, where Vesuvius, Baiae, and Pompeii figured amongst ...
A group of wall painting fragments discovered at Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, an important Roman archeological site located in the former Roman province of Dacia (Romania), have been investigated with the aim of defining the material composition of their pictorial layers and exploring the pictorial ...