This developed city got buried and preserved under 4 to 6 metres of volcanic ashes, creating a paradise for archaeologists and history…
The Catacombs of San Gennaro are underground paleo-Christian burial and worship sites in Naples, Italy, carved out of tuff, a porous stone.
Villa Jovis is a Roman palace on Capri, southern Italy, built by emperor Tiberius and completed in 27 CE.
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia.
The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples is a charnel house, an ossuary, located in a cave in the tuff hillside in the Materdei section of the…
Herculaneum was an ancient town, located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.
Velia was the Roman name of an ancient city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Cumae was the first ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia on the mainland of Italy and was founded by settlers from Euboea in the 8th…
The Temple of Athena is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia found at Paestum, in Capaccio Paestum, a comune in the province of Salerno in the…
The Temple of Hera II, is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia in Paestum, Campania, Italy.
Aeclanum was an ancient town of Samnium, Southern Italy, about 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia.
The Amphitheatre of Capua was a Roman amphitheatre in the city of Capua, second only to the Colosseum in size and probably the model for it.
Sessa Aurunca is a town and comune in the province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy.
Compsa was an ancient city of the Hirpini, near the sources of the Aufidus, on the boundary of Lucania and not far from that of Apulia, on…
In ancient geography, the Ligures Baebiani were a settlement of Ligurians in Samnium, Italy.
