A series of frescoes spanning three walls of an ancient banquet hall was recently discovered in Pompeii. The enormous, ...

Uncovered in what was once a spacious banqueting hall that opened onto a garden, the frieze dates back to the 1st century BC, ...

The narrative draws from the ancient Greek play The Bacchae, written by Euripides in 405 BCE, wherein Dionysus descends on ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79, officials ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices ...

The House of Thiasus got its name from the “thiasos,” or sacred procession, of Dionysus. The fresco matches the Second Style ...

Due to forecasts of rain, Sunday's Krewe of Dionysus parade in Slidell has been rescheduled. Don Shea, a krewe member and ...

Archaeologists in a new discovery unearthed a “megalography” in the ruins of Pompeii that has revealed the wilder side of the ...

The Krewe of Dionysus parade rolls this Saturday in Berwick; we have some information from the Police Department so you can ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in the ancient ...