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Latest Pompeii Discovery | Newly Discovered Paintings

Archaeologists working in Pompeii have unearthed a series of rare, almost life-size paintings known as frescoes. The paintings depict Dionysus - the god of wine-making - and the dig has also uncovered 50 rooms in the ancient Roman city. Pompeii was buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79.

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