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

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

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

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

"It was quite a surprise to find it there a few centimeters beneath the ground." Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

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

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

Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis ... “Rome becomes the pig,” says Price. This Roman marble relief depicts the Trojan hero Aeneas and his son ...

In ancient Greece and Rome ... The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter ...