Despite Rome’s glorious architecture ... the countryside – lived in a domus. This was a house built around an unroofed courtyard, or atrium. The atrium acted as the reception and living ...

Most houses in Pompeii were built around an atrium, as was common for the time ... collect rainwater that traditionally figures in ancient Roman courtyards. Still, archaeologists did find evidence ...

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 19 - Pompeii's House of the Little Fountain is set to re-open Thursday after a long restoration, the archaeological park at the ancient ... House of the Atrium to the Insula ...