Life-size depiction of a couple:  a man and a woman The restoration currently underway will be on display at the exhibition “Essere donna nell’antica Pompei” (Being a woman in ancient Pompeii) which will open on 16 April 2025   A funerary relief showing the almost life-size figures of a couple – a man and a woman – from a tomb in the necropolis of Porta Sarno has been discovered. It came to l …Read more

AN EXTREMELY RARE “MEGALOGRAPHY” OF THE 1ST CENTURY BC, LIKE THE FAMOUS VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES Over 100 years since the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a large new fresco casts light on the Dionysiac mysteries in the classical world. An almost life-size frieze, known as a “megalography” (from the Greek term for "large painting"- a cycle of paintings with large-scale figures) has been unea …Read more

The Park’s director Gabriel Zuchtriegel stated:”Itis an example of how the Roman domusacted as the setting for artistic and cultural shows that the owner staged to gain votes or win the favour of his guests” A large bath-complex inside a private domus, adjoining a banqueting room, has been unearthed during the excavations currently being carried out in insula 10 ofRegio IXin Pompeii. The complex i …Read more