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

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis dated to Rome’s Late Republican period.

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

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

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

Archaeologists have uncovered lifesize sculptures of a man and a woman in a newly excavated tomb in Pompeii’s Porta Sarno ...

In Roman religion, she was symbolically connected to the moon, as its phases were thought to correspond with harvests, which could explain the female statue’s lunula pendant, per the journal.

However, the ostentation of the female relief may suggest that the status of priestess was still reserved for women belonging to a relatively high social standing.” The statues have been moved ...

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