{"id":7867,"date":"2024-05-07T13:55:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2024-05-07T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:30:02","slug":"breathtaking-new-paintings-found-in-pompeii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/breathtaking-new-paintings-found-in-pompeii\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathtaking new paintings found in Pompeii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC<\/a><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; 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&#8217;s near-complete mosaic floor incorporates more than a million individual white tiles.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/133121442_helen-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7868 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/681;\" \/><figcaption>BBC\/Tony Jolliffe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-68777741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":7868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1917,162,929,1821,196,575],"class_list":{"0":"post-7867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-ancient-city","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-history","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-pompei","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/133121442_helen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7869,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions\/7869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}