Thanks to exceptional loans, an innovative and thought-provoking exhibition at the museum explores how slumber has inspired painters.

Inside a large house in a part of Pompeii called Regio IX, a team from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii unearthed a splendidly decorated dining room that eighteenth-century excavators had stumbled ...

The stunning frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries include one room with a painted frieze widely considered to depict an initiation rite into the cult of Dionysus, the god of wine, pictured at the ...

13.9 34.9 57.5 (22.6) - ST / 1000 m / tf / 5 bt 9 / B Avdulla / Swimming ...

Archaeologists have found a large wall painting in Pompeii that portrays scenes from the ancient Dionysian mystery cults that were popular in the classical world. This life-sized frieze, which is ...