A love story of a woman named Erato, the setting of a gladiatorial combat, and numerous other moments and emotions are inscribed on a wall in the theatre district, similar to what we would find today on city walls or social media. Stories of real life, loves, passions, insults, and sporting incitements that would have been lost forever, but are now resurfacing in Pompeii thanks to technology. This happens in a corridor connecting the theater area to Via Stabiana. An ancient wall excavated more than 230 years ago, which attracts millions of visitors annually and from which no new discoveries or narratives were anticipated, has yielded nearly 300 inscriptions through the application of advanced research methodologies. These include approximately 200 previously known inscriptions and 79 newly identified ones. The initiative, titled Bruits de couloir ("Rumors"), was initiated by Louis Autin and Éloïse Letellier-Taillefer of Sorbonne University, along with Marie-Adeline Le Guennec of the University of Quebec at Montreal, in partnership with the Pompeii Archaeological Park. The methodology used a virtual grid, documented spatial and thematic connections between the inscriptions, and analyzed the corridor walls using RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging, a computational photography technique that acquires a series of images of an object under different lighting directions).