Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

The symbolism of the carved accessories of the woman may identify her as a priestess of Ceres, indicating her involvement in ...

ANALYSIS: New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

At its top stood the relief sculpture of the couple, with the male figure standing at 5’7″ and the ... the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility. In ancient Roman mythology, Ceres is strongly ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii uncovered a life-size funerary relief at the Porta Sarno necropolis, depicting a man and a woman ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Statue of Marcus Aurelius, one of the most famous Roman emperors to love ancient Greece and its philosophy. Credit: Livioandronico2013 / Wikimedia commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Several prominent ancient ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...