Archaeologists have uncovered rooms of an ancient house in Pompeii that reveal insights into the life of middle-class Romans.The Archaeological Park of Pompeii first unearthed this home, or 'domus', in 2018, and on Saturday announced the discoveries of four new rooms.This included a bedroom containing a bedframe and scrap of pillow, a storage room with a wooden cabinet and two upstairs rooms that housed bronze objects and an incense burner. Previous archaeological work has focused on the elaborately decorated villas of the upper-class, that too were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.A trunk left open in the bedroom and items discarded on the floor suggest the owners hastily abandoned their property before it was buried in volcanic debris. Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the Archaeological Park's director, said: 'In the Roman empire, there was an ample chunk of the population that struggled with their social status and for whom "daily bread" was anything but a given.'A vulnerable class during political crises and food shortages, but also ambitious about climbing the social ladder.' Archaeologists have uncovered rooms of an ancient house in Pompeii that reveal insights into the life of middle-class Romans.

The 'House of the Larario' was named after an elaborately decorated place of worship in the courtyard Remains of glass plates, ceramic bowls and vases are discovered in a dig near the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, destroyed in 79 AD in volcanic eruption. The artefacts reveal details about the domestic environment of ordinary Roman citizens A bipartite wooden chest that had been left open in the bedroom after its owners fled their home.

Beams and planks from the ceiling had fallen onto it during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It held a terracotta sigillata plate and double-spouted lantern with a bas-relief carving of the transformation of Zeus into an eagle. Next to the chest was a small, circular, three-footed table, upon which was a ceramic cup containing two glass vials or 'ampoules', a glass plate and a sigillata plateinteriar decorator generously visit our page.