Oplontis was part of a luxurious string of vacation properties built by wealthy Romans, which included the San Marco and Ariana villas, in Castellammare di Stabia, ...

Oplontis B, also called the Villa of Lucius Crassus Tertius after a seal that bore his name, appears to have been an import-export type business, primarily dealing in wine.

A team of archaeologists working at the site of Oplontis, which was destroyed along with Pompeii and Herculaneum on August 24, 79 AD, have just published a series of 3D scans of Roman skeletons ...

Villa Poppaea, Torre Annunziata, Italy Wall paintings, Villa Poppaea(robertharding/Alamy Stock Photo) Planting pots, Villa Poppaea(The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski Archive in the University ...

Now the skeletons of four more victims — two pregnant women and their newborn or late-term fetuses, discovered among an estimated 50 others in a building in the nearby villa of Oplontis — is ...

The Oplontis team will be analyzing the site for three more years, but a picture is already emerging of an operation not unlike the co-op and négociant models of today. The most obvious clue was a ...

The story of the city through interviews with experts and enthusiasts of local history, people committed to territorial enhancement and entrepreneurs, from fishing to the art of baking, accompanied ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city is set to expand. The Grande Pompei project, which will lay on free shuttle buses and shared tickets to other archaeological sites and villas in the vicinity.