'Virgin' frescoes emerge from Pompeii suburb

For the first time on Thursday, visitors were allowed in to see the renovations underway at Villa Poppaea, a pleasure palace of Ancient Rome destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. "It's important, now that we're almost finished, to start reopening the villa and allowing everyone to visit it," said Arianna Spinosa, the director of the archaeological site near Naples, southern Italy. The villa was the home of the Emperor Nero's second wife, Poppaea Sabina -- whom some believe he later killed...