From 12 February every Thursday from 10.30 am to 12.00 pm An opportunity to get a first-hand view of the excavations and new finds Press preview 12 February 10.00 am Theatre masks, figures of brightly coloured peacocks preserved intact beneath layers of ash and lapilli, imprints of trees and elegant new rooms are emerging from the excavations designed to reveal more of Villa Poppea. The sumptuous …Read more

After two centuries, new discoveries made in the corridor by the theatres “Why the future of memory depends on technology”   A love story of a woman named Erato, Erato Amat… (Erato loves...), a scene of gladiatorial combat, and many other moments and feelings set down on a wall in the theatre district, akin to what we would find today on the walls of modern streets or in online chats and social me …Read more

The first results from the current investigations are published today in the Park’s e-journal Excavations and restoration are currently being carried out in the Villa of Poppaea at Oplontis-Torre Annunziata.  The work is focusing on the famous oecus of the theatre mask and the peacock, one of the most elegant rooms in the villa, decorated in Second Style. The recent resumption of excavations has p …Read more

From the Pop-up choir to Teatro Grande and musical-themed tours. The entire calendar of events starting from 13 December. There is a packed programme of events for the Christmas period at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii for families, children and adults. The main theme will be music, which in various forms and at various dates, will accompany visitors during the guided tours around the sites of …Read more

Paradoxically, the enslaved workers whom the Romans considered “talking tools” (instrumentum vocale) sometimes enjoyed better nutrition than their “free” fellow men and women. This  impression, suggested by the written sources, now seems to find confirmation from the excavations being carried out in the  villa of Civita Giuliana near Pompeii. The work was made possible by a subsidy of 140,000 Euro …Read more

Pompeii, RePAIR The research project for the reassembly of fragmented frescoes using an “intelligent robot” comes to an end Research and experimentation in Pompeii between archaeology, artificial intelligence and computer vision Pompeii (Italy), 27 November 2025 – The research project RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Meet Cultural Heritage), funded by the Europ …Read more

UNESCO World Heritage destinations unite to share knowledge, improve conservation, and inspire travellers through living history and cultural exchange. AlUla, Saudi Arabia - Two of the world’s most remarkable open-air heritage destinations, AlUla in north-west Saudi Arabia and Pompeii in southern Italy, have come together in a new collaboration that will redefine how travellers experience the past …Read more

Pompeii can now be explored with all the senses. The Archaeological Park of Pompeii is extending its accessibility services to make visits more enthralling for everyone. A tactile support that tells the history of Pompeii, situated at the entrance of Piazza Anfiteatro, provides an introduction to the tour. Tactile interfaces with high-definition bas reliefs with captions in Braille, 3D models and …Read more

The article providing an in-depth analysis was published today in the e-journal of the Pompeii excavations. They didn’t reach the levels of medieval cities such as Bologna or San Giminiano, but at Pompeii too the large residences of emerging families could have towers, the symbols of the power and wealth of the local elite. This is the hypothesis put forward in a new article entitled “La torre del …Read more

The people waiting at the time were clients and labourers, rather than art lovers “the graffiti incised on walls by people bored with waiting” Article published in the E-Journal of the excavations  The long queues to see the most famous domus of Pompeii, such as those last Sunday with free entry when it was the most visited site in Italy, provide an image that would have been familiar two thousand …Read more