Breakthrough in mystery of life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii tomb - ANALYSIS: New discoveries in archaeology are ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new light on the power held by priestesses ...

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

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

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

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

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around 1700 years before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. As is typical, this woman was immediately labelled, by the archaeologists who uncovered her, as the man’s wife.

Researchers say the nearly life-size figures shed new light on life and religion in Pompeii, which was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. The discovery was made while researchers from ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii ... which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.