A spectacular banqueting room with elegant black walls, decorated with mythological characters and subjects inspired by the Trojan War, is one of the rooms recently been brought to light during the excavations currently underway in insula (block) 10 of Regio IX at Pompeii and which is now completely visible in all its splendour. It provided a refined setting for entertainment during convivial mome …Read more

At the entrance of Piazza Anfiteatro, by walking along the path through the greenery flanked by the ancient tombs of the cemetery of Porta Nocera, one comes to a unique place which, like so many other similar ones in Pompeii, is steeped in sanctity and compassion. It is a display area of several plaster casts of victims of the eruption, discovered close to the ancient gate of Porta di Nocera. As f …Read more

New information relating to Roman construction techniques is emerging from the ongoing excavations at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. In the rooms of the ancient domus in Region IX, insula 10 excavations are revealing important evidence of a building site in full swing: work tools, stacked tiles, bricks of tuff, and piles of lime. According to scholars, the building site was active up until th …Read more

Projects for over 100 million euros and the most extensive excavations since the 1950s in the context of an ancient city which has no boundaries with the surrounding territory     To mark the live YouTube broadcast for the press on the restoration work and excavations of the House of Leda, explored in 2018-2019 and now once again the subject of intervention designed to ensure accessibility and pro …Read more

When excavations began in Pompeii in 1748, it was forbidden to take notes and make drawings without special authorisation from the king of Naples. Today, the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, an institute with scientific and managerial autonomy under the Italian Ministry of Culture, publishes scientific data from new excavations and research online in a new digital journal, the ‘E-Journal degli Scavi di Pompei’, often while field work is still in progress. A choice of “radical transparency”, as the director of the UNESCO site, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, labelled the project, which was launched last May. Now the first nine articles, published during the year 2023 on important discoveries via the Archaeological Park's website (pompeiisites.org/e-journal-of-the-pompeii-excavations/) have been collated in a single volume - also in digital format.    …Read more