Archaeological Park of Pompeii - Finestre sull'Arte

Pompeii hosts an exhibition on the condition of women and the role of women in the ancient city of Vesuvius

What does it mean to "be a woman"? A statement of identity, but also a question that takes on different nuances depending on time and context. Pompeii is no exception. It is precisely to the condition of women in the Vesuvian city that the exhibition...
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What pigments were used in the frescoes of Pompeii? Study published on the subject

The scientific article Pompeian pigments has been published in the international Journal of Archaeological Science. A glimpse into ancient Roman coloring materials. The study is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the Archaeological Park o...
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Minister Giuli on 230 million for Ostia Antica and Pompeii: "Money well spent"

A question time meeting was held yesterday, March 12, 2025, at the Chamber of Deputies with Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, who was called to respond on the government's strategies for the protection and enhancement of the national archaeological ...
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In Pompeii, increased tourist flows do not depend on new excavations or reopening of domus: a new study

An interdisciplinary study conducted by theUniversity of Salerno, in collaboration with the Pompeii Archaeological Park, analyzed the possible correlation between new excavation campaigns andincreased tourist flows. The results, published in the late...
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Pompeii, new frescoes discovered and some rooms reopened

Discoveries that enrich Pompeii's archaeological heritage continue. Ongoing excavations in Pompeii's Regio IX have brought to light, in an oecus (hall) that is emerging with the very latest investigations, very interesting frescoes: in the colonnaded...
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Pompeii, new discovery disproves decades of assumptions about relationships between inhabitants

New discoveries from Pompeii could change our knowledge about the great archaeological site. A recent study by researchers from theUniversity of Florence, Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig used ancient DNA analysis to revise ...
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Pompeii, House of Phaedra discovered, a rare domus without an atrium. Which also has an erotic fresco

In Pompeii, a new ongoing archaeological excavation in the area of theinsula of the Casti Amanti has unearthed a rare housing typology that testifies to social and cultural change in first-century AD Rome. The house, which takes the provisional name ...
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Aspen, Allison Katz's contemporary painting in dialogue with fragments of Pompeii frescoes

From May 30 to Sept. 29, 2024, In the House of the Trembling Eye, a large group exhibition by London-based artist Allison Katz will be on view in the entire AspenArt Museum in Aspen, organized in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii....
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