It’s fascinating how there’s still so much of Pompeii to still excavate - and as the years pass the archaeological / preservation techniques improve.

The person who painted the painting, at minute 2:50 of this video, did a phenomenal job, as it really draws us into its three-dimensionality. The height perspective of the people in it to one another in relation to us, the observer, is PERFECT

Historically valuable discoveries like this provide great inspiration to modern people. By the way, Saturn's 12th satellite Helen is named after Helen.

Thanks to Mr Zuchtriegel, the director of Pompeii, who is always driving forward new excavations in more parts of this ancient Roman city at the Gulf of Naples,discovering hidden treasures for such a long time that are covered by the debris of Mount Vesuvius and grass on its top until now.

they didn't say it in this clip but the second fresco (the one with the dog) shows us Paris [of Troy] in his alleged first meeting with Helen, something that was already 1,200yrs in the past when Pompeii was destroyed.

I'm disappointed with the cameraman for not zooming in more on the paintings...

Wow. Fantastic find.

The tragic disaster at Pompeii, is still haunting to this day. However. It also created a time capsule of ancient Rome, that gives us a view into that time. Unlike any other.

Them painting the walls black to hide the soot feels relatable. 😂

I love these ancient paintings

The room would look even larger in low lamp light, and the small people paintings would look like they were across the room, at a distance. Yes, flickering on the paintings. 😮😮😮😊🎉

Beautiful. I want to visit so bad!!!!

I visited in 1990. It lives up to its promis. They were so far ahead in terms of good living

Ive been to pompii 3 times. Every time was just amazing. Never disappointed.

Pompeii was a pretty third rate town back in Roman times so imagine the art you would have found in major cities like Rome and Constantinople, if only it had been preserved like this.

The frescoes in Pompeii are my favorite frescoes of all. They are so beautiful.

Love seeing these paintings in situ and the discussion of how they were seen by the inhabitants of ancient Pompeii. They differ from earlier broad assumptions of color use as well as levels of subtlety and realism. Thank you for showing us this!

How sophisticated the Romans were so very long ago. How much we owe to the world of archaeology.

I love new finds at Pompeii, the time capsule of Roman life. These paintings are wonderful, I can’t remember if they are considered Second or Third Style. Maybe some expert might answer? (I have no art or archaeology expertise whatsoever, thanks).

I would question the oil lamp hypothesis for the room being black (and I presume it is a hypothesis contrary to how it stated here) based on a) the Romans presumably used lamps in other rooms not painted black and b) oilve oil burns very cleanly and produces very little black smoke or soot. Other kinds of oil (whale oil especially) or candles, both of which were not used until the modern period, produce much more.

Stunning!

I wonder if they tried to scan the walls to see if there’s any drawings hidden by the time.

Beautiful place to visit.

note how the painted humans have shaded colours - there is a somewhat popular modern misconception that roman and greek statues that in modernity have been known as white marble or plaster were originally painted in garish bright and flat colours. but this is based on a handful of bad recreations that are the result of inadequate painting skills and an inappropriate limiting of the paint scheme to attempted recreations of the estimated original hues (on some recreations almost certainly overcorrecting for the presence of dark/grey/brown dirt and light-bleaching) of very small point-samples of colour from original antique statues and busts that were at some point in the past deliberately stripped of their colour to make them look neat and uniform after much wear, and then to conform to what people expect them to look like. if you look at antique marble busts and statues, they tend to very obviously show the intent of realism, and very impressive results to that end. to mine, cut, transport, carve and scrape marble into such shapes with antique technology requires time and skill far beyond how most successful artists and artisans work today. the paint on these statues and busts would have correspondingly been an extremely high quality version of the realism-oriented shaded painting style that these very cheap murals represent. even mosaics made of those tiny tile squares generally employ shading for humans and animals and what not. these statues were the ancient equivalent of today's wax statues, and wax statue artists are the ones who would be most qualified to recreate ancient statue paint. those much-shared modern painted recreations that look like they were made with acrylic colours straight from the tube are about as accurate as ecce mono, it's ridiculous that they've been broadly accepted, and the people who made and published them have embarrassed themselves and their profession.

The things that gets me are the little drawings in the streets on the walls. Graffiti and kids hand prints. Some things never change.

Intricate art discovered. Amazing!

It is a common misconception, included in the comments here, that the marble statues were plain. They were not. Archaeological evidence has revealed the remnants of paint remaining on the statues and through that the colors used.

Thanks for posting

Amazing! Beautiful artworks, thank you for the excellent reporting.

Always love classical paintings

At night with Candlelight the pictures would have looked like they were floating and the candlelight would have made them look like they were moving

My dog, Tuco, is a ringer for that dog in the painting.

What a great glimpse into the Roman word - Civis Romanus

The great Roman civilization, the great Western culture.

I like how it's just a really simple image set against the black background....it really stands out. I wonder what it would've felt like to go in a time machine back to that room before the eruption with a few oil lamps...talk about atmospheric!.

They are finding the good stuff lately. I really love the secluded house temple they where renovating when the mountain exploded.

Spectacular.

dogs have been our best friend for ever

It would have been good to have actually seen the room rather than just bits

La richesse de cette époque reste encore à redécouvrir ❤

So cool.

Why not show it all?

I'm traveling there next October, can't wait to see these with my own eyes. 😍

I love my Pompeii

Lovely 🎉

Wow.

Stunning wow

Fantastic!

So much wall. So few pictures on the blackened wall.

Totally amazing

This fascinating

Amazing 👍👍👍

I was there and there were many paintings of .I. The ironic thing is that they were destroyed by a giant one

Hallelujah archaeologists !!!

Very cool!

Exciting!

Amazing also to think that it took Western painting more than 1200 years to reach this level of depiction again.

Was it more or less intact then? Why did they not find any furniture?

Think about that all over the Mediterranean sea the Roman empire had a splendid culture over 2000 years ago . Today the southern and eastern coasts are occupied by a culture with no music , no sculpture and no paintings of humans . In the Roman empire the WOMAN was respected.

why aren't the walls white like the floor, to bounce off the light? why isnt the floor black like the walls -- to hide the soot?

the fresco could be the household members the man, woman and daughter looking up adoringly to her mother

the paintings are better by far than medieval counterparts. the Europe was degraded from Roman civilization to germenic medieval.

I think they were idea'd to paint plaster in all black then colors, then upon firelight they would/still will stand out give off a 3d appearance. Anyone try it yet ??

I don’t understand… this room was recently found? Is it underground? How come noone found it for 2000 years… or was it filled with soil and just ended up shovel it out?

With all these excavations, where is the furniture?

We should feel incredibly privileged. 😮

Has this house been given a modern moniker by the scholars? Perhaps that older convention is no longer followed. I look forward to seeing more of the artwork in closer detail in the future.

I love how the bbc deletes the comments of people with differing opinions, but cant stop a bunch of spam bots all using the same key word.

Why don't they build a roof for the room since the sunlight will fade these 2000 year old paintings pretty fast?

Is there one of Frankie Howard?

The archeologist Sophie Hay reasonably speculates near the end of the report that the room was used for entertaining and the guests and their hosts would likely be engaged in lively discussions of politics. Tragically, unlike the Romans and the Athenians, and even Americans dating back to the 60's and 70's, since the 90's we have increasingly lost our ability and willingness to engage one another in rational debate over controversial political, social, and religious issues. This intolerance of dissent and free and open discussion originated in American colleges in the 90's when the Neo-Marxist Left gained greater control over universities and declared war on our traditions founded in Western Civilization.

there a dog face top left window

A Pompeiinting

How did they construct that floor? Holy Toledo. I wanna go to Pompii ,but I feel guilty about being another tourist trampling down peoples ancient heritage.

Did they have same kind of dining furniture like modern days would? If not, what were they like?

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🎨 Stunning artworks discovered in Pompeii's new excavation* - Discovery of stunning artworks in a new excavation at Pompeii. - Description of the black room and its intricate paintings. - Insight into the functional reasons behind the black walls and white mosaic floor. 01:22 *🖼️ Understanding the significance of the artwork in the context of the room's use* - Discussion on the purpose of the room as an entertaining space. - Imagining the atmosphere and activities that took place in the room 2,000 years ago. - Appreciation for the preservation of Pompeii frozen in time. 03:51 *🏛️ Reflection on the historical significance of the discovery* - Appreciation for being among the first to see the room after 2,000 years. - Frozen-in-time quality of Pompeii and its archaeological significance. - Announcement of the upcoming documentary about Pompeii's new dig. Made with HARPA AI

We seem to forget there is an era of art PRE Jesus, pre Byzantium, and it’s full of life, erotica, nature and still life’s. Very much like fine art today ( last 200 years ) it’s quite extraordinary but the art of Ancient Greece and Rome is of such a calibre that it won’t be bested for nearly 1300 years. Art has done a full circle

Import beautiful history

I wish you had simply concentrated on the art work. You never even showed the landscapes!!

this a black energy entity room

It busts the myth that Light and shadow painting was invented during Renaissance

Pompeiintings

I was in Pompeii about months ago and noted how there was scaffolding in a lot of places. It appeared to me that they were "building" some ancient ruins. There were also tins of paint in many of the rooms you couldn't go in. Bit of a theme park really. Better off going to Ercolano until they do the same there.

2:22 👈 my goodness...

Im amazed you haven't AI' d them as black!!😅

bbc excavated for gold and now showing paintings

Again the Greeks ohhh what a suprise

4:20 anyone?😅

to see your god to meet to worship his image

Oh, loving how it will look fully restored by AI!

WOW what lifeless and lacklustre reporting! Great discovery by the Archaeologists.

It is an undeniable fact that during the period of 1640 to 1807, Britain was the most dominant power in the slave trade, and it took the largest number of African slaves. According to estimates, Britain transported a staggering 3.1 million Africans as slaves, of which 2.7 million arrived in the British colonies located in the Caribbean, North and South America, and other regions across the world.

Of course, it's all interpretation... for instance the picture with the dog could have been a depiction of when they bought a dog off some dodgy street vendor.

It is gonna be a crucial year and a huge milestone went through with AWM89V something everyone should be aware of

A party room for Romans, hmmmm...tell me more, hehe.

Why is there a painting of Cassandra here, I wonder? It would be very interesting if, as this affluent family engages in political discussions in this room, the painting displayed here was saying, 'What I am saying is true. People might not believe it, but just believe.'

Those paintings aren't new at all! They're roughly 2000 years old.

All BBC blah blah and no views of the work.

Just leaving this here.. My heart goes to the entire community for AWM89V building up something which is worth it for everyone. This is so smart by them to launch and shatter the doubts and fears of the common folk, which was misplaced by all the drama we had last years. Time for changes

Incredible in such short time AWM89V is groundbreaking and everywhere, who can even come close?