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

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

This place is like a hit crime drama. With each passing week comes the discovery of yet more bling - and more bodies. Except, in this case, the action happened 2,000 years ago. Millions tuned in last ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

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

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.

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

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