Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments, offering glimpse the art of ancient Romans ... But what materials did ancient Roman artists use to create these masterpieces?

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

In the wake of the midsized earthquakes that struck Pompeii in 62 C.E., the city ... comprehensively detailing the pigments comprising Roman paints, researchers write, is that conservators ...

A recent study offers new insights into the pigments used by ancient Roman artists in Pompeii, revealing how ... use of a new gray color in Pompeian art. The presence of barite and alunite in ...

Watch Pink Floyd’s performance of One Of These Days from their restored Pompeii concert film which arrives in cinemas on ...