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

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

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

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures ... art is in the eyes of these women, just two of the 58 extraordinary works of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From ...

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

“Women couldn’t participate in politics in the ancient Roman world so the way they could ... It added: “These types of sculptures are very rare in southern Italy. It is even more unusual ...

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