Excavations in Pompeii revealed that four people, including a child, tried to seek shelter from the eruption of Mount ...

In the home where the four people examined in the new study died, a central wall in the banquet ... any religious value for Pompeii residents and served merely as a decoration and status display ...

It’s not the only Pompeii mansion to celebrate the god of excess. The “House of Bacchus” was excavated in 1879. One of its frescoes shows the god standing beside Mount Vesuvius, wrapped in a gown of ...