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A cloud rose high, and was of such shape and appearance that it could not be compared to any tree better than to a pine tree. In fact, standing up as if on a very high trunk, it then widened into a kind of branching ...

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Pompeii, new excavations bring to light a monumental tomb with a high relief depicting a married couple.

A monumental tomb adorned with a life-size relief depicting a married couple — Photo: Foto Alfio Giannotti

Recent excavations in the Porta Sarno funerary area of Pompeii have led to the extraordinary discovery of a monumental tomb adorned with a life-size relief depicting a married couple. This exceptional find, a result of the "Investigating the Archaeology of Death in Pompeii Research Project," sheds new light on the funerary practices, religious beliefs, and social structure of the ancient Vesuvian city.

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A megalography on the mysteries of Dionysus emerges in insula 10 of Pompeii's Regio IX

More than 100 years after the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a major new fresco sheds light on the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world. In a large banquet hall excavated in recent weeks in the central area of Pompeii, in insula 10 of Regio IX, an almost life-size frieze, or “megalography” (from the Greek for “large painting”-a cycle of large-figure paintings), has emerged, circling around three sides of the room; the fourth was open to the garden.