Excavations at the ancient city of Paestum in the province of Salerno have uncovered a wealth of well-preserved terracotta figurines offering insights into the religious and cultural life of the ...

Newlyweds who want to have photos of their special day taken among the ruins of the ancient city of Paestum in southern Italy will now have to pay up to €7,000 for the privilege. The news has added ...

Excavations in southern Italy have unearthed terracotta bull heads and a figurine of the Greek god Eros riding a dolphin, shining new light on the religious life and rituals of an ancient city, ...

Near Naples, it’s a case study in archaeology in Italy. I’d never been to Paestum, the archaeological park about 60 miles south of Naples on the Tyrrhenian Sea and site of what might be the three best ...

With the famed ruins of Pompeii looming large in people’s imaginations, many of Italy’s smaller and lesser-known ancient sites often are overlooked. One such place is Paestum, a long-ago Greek colony ...

In 1777, a year before his death, the great 18th century Italian artist, antiquarian and architectural theorist Giovanni Battista Piranesi traveled to the magnificent archaeological site of Paestum ...

In early 2024 a team of chemists and archaeologists from the University of Oxford reopened a mystery first raised in 1954, when eight bronze jars packed with a tar-like crust were excavated from an ...