The banquet hall was used for refined entertaining and features black walls, a technique that prevented the smoke from oil lamps from being seen.
A banquet hall, with elegant black walls, decorated with mythological subjects inspired by the Trojan War, recently unearthed in the Pompeii archaeological area near Naples in southern Italy
The hall, which features a mosaic floor, was uncovered as part of a project to shore up the areas dividing the excavated and unexcavated parts of Pompeii, the ancient city near Naples that was destroyed in AD 79 when Mount Vesuvius erupted. A fresco depicting Greek mythology’s figures of Helen, left, and Paris of Troy, right, inside an imposing banquet hall unearthed in the Pompeii archaeological area near Naples in southern Italy Experts said the reference to mythological figures was designed to entertain guests and provide conversation starters.
A fresco depicting Greek mythology’s figures Cassandra, a cursed prophetess, and Apollo, God of oracles and knowledge, inside the banquet hall
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