Like most urban areas, ancient Pompeii had residences of all types, including sprawling villas, smaller city houses, and multistory apartment buildings. Few of its homes, however, were as grand as ...
a previously unexcavated part of ancient Pompeii. The emperor Nero is thought to have visited the southern Italian city of Pompeii in A.D. 64, perhaps spending a few nights in the enormous villa ...
Located just south of Naples, Pompeii was founded in 600 ... the best look anywhere at life in an ancient Roman town, with its gridded street plan, villas and homes, commercial buildings, public ...
Villa dei Misteri, Civita Giuliana and Stabia.” The Park is developing a free shuttle bus service to these nearby ancient sites as part of the Greater Pompeii projects. “We are aiming for slow ...
The Villa of the Mysteries gets its name ... Britain to North Africa and the Middle East, while Pompeii was located next to one of the ancient world’s busiest ports, where ships regularly ...
In response, authorities alighted on a potential solution: dispersing visitors around ancient sites that ... the archaeological area of Pompeii itself, as well as villas at nearby Boscoreale ...
When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made ...