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

Archaeologists have unearthed two almost life-size sculptures during excavations of a tomb in the ancient Roman city of ...

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

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town ... Priestesses, in the Roman world, held unusual levels of power for women – and it's been suggested that ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of ... by priestesses to waft the smoke of incense and herbs in religious rituals. Priestesses, in the ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

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

Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” the exhibition will feature 58 sculptures ... the portraits of women offer an important opportunity to examine ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie ...

Based mainly on written evidence of various kinds, it can be shown that in ancient ... sculptures shows us just how difficult this task is. Generations of art historians specializing in Greek and ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient ... after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple ...