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 ...

If you were dropped into Paestum and not told the location, you’d think you were in Greece. But you are in Salerno, Italy, where the remains of three Greek temples, with beautifully carved columns, ...

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 ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Paestum found the ruins of two sacred Greek temples built atop each other, photos show. Photo from the Italian Ministry of Culture On the edge of an ...

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 ...

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A campaign of stratigraphic excavations in the western area of the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia (Roman Paestum) has revealed the existence of two Greek Doric temples. This discovery sheds new ...

Archaeologists have unearthed two "exceptional" temples that are estimated to be 2,400 years old in a historic ancient city in southern Italy. According to a press release from the Italian Ministry of ...

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 ...

On the edge of an ancient city in Italy sat some long-forgotten ruins. The structure was once a sacred site and had been worn down by thousands of years of neglect — but it still hid a secret ...