Fresco with remarkably vivid colours found during work at ancient city in Italy Archaeologists have found a fresco in an ancient Pompeii bedroom that depicts a sensual scene of the Roman god Jupiter, disguised as a swan, and a legendary queen of Sparta from Greek mythology. The figure of Leda being impregnated by the god in swan form was a fairly common home decoration theme in Pompeii and Herculaneum, another town destroyed in AD79 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius near present-day Naples. Continue reading...
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