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 ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

“Nevertheless, these types of sculptures are very rare in southern Italy. It is even more unusual to find reliefs of ...

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

It is even more unusual to find reliefs of priestesses holding their religious objects,” Alapont said in the statement. “It is clear that there were priestesses of Ceres in Pompeii ...

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

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 ...

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