Archaeologists unearth significant new paintings in the ancient Roman town buried by a volcano in AD79.

Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79.

Archaeologists say the frescos are among the finest to be found in the ruins of the ancient site.

Mythical Greek figures such as Helen of Troy are depicted on the high black walls of a large banqueting hall.

The room’s near-complete mosaic floor incorporates more than a million individual white tiles.

A third of the lost city has still to be cleared of volcanic debris. The current dig, the biggest in a generation, is underlining Pompeii’s position as the world’s premier window on the people and culture of the Roman empire.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    What’s clear, however, is that all the properties were undergoing renovation at the time of the eruption.

    Escaping workers left roof tiles neatly stacked; their pots of lime mortar are still filled, waiting to be used; their trowels and pickaxes remain, although the wooden handles have long since rotted away.

    For some reason this is the coolest thing out of the article for me. That we were able to figure out what was happening there, that day, at that moment. Wild.