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Greek Reporter26d
Minoan Greece Had Fast Food 3,600 Years Ago, Food Stall Discovery Reveals
The Romans called them thermopolium and the stalls were very much alike to those discovered in Thera. Pompeii “fast food” stall. Credit: Italian Ministry of Culture As for the painted menus, the ...
Greek Reporter22d
An Aromatic Odyssey Into the Mythical Power of Perfumes in Ancient Greece
560-530 BC, Thera Archaeological Museum ... From this pre-Hellenic era, frescoes on Santorini at the Akrotiri archaeological site depict women collecting crocuses and saffron. The flowers were ...
The New York Times9d
Hidden Above a Trap Door, 17th-Century Frescoes Come to Light
A trap door in the Pompeian Room of the 16th-century Villa Farnesina in Rome revealed previously unknown frescoes by the painter Carlo Maratta and two students.Credit...Filippo Monteforte/Agence ...
KSL3d
Maine's hidden 'Sistine Chapel' inspires artists with 70-year-old frescoes
The interior of the building is covered in 70-year-old fresco murals that encourage some in the state's art community to describe it as "Maine's Sistine Chapel." The murals were painted by artists ...
Boston Herald11d
Maine’s hidden ‘Sistine Chapel’ inspires artists with 70-year-old frescoes
The interior of the building is covered in 70-year-old fresco murals that encourage some in the state’s art community to describe it as “Maine’s Sistine Chapel.” Veronique Plesch ...