For over 100 years, these items have helped researchers sketch a portrait of life in the some of the world’s oldest cities. The careful documentation of hundreds of thousands of inscriptions helped ...

At the time, some Pompeii residents no longer felt the need for atriums, which were used as reception rooms and to display portraits and trophies ... Research published in 2021 found that the volcano ...

in ancient Greek, "City of Brotherly Love") nearly 2000 years ago. The collection of paintings, known as the Fayoum portraits, portrays some of the wealthiest people that existed in these ancient ...