Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient ... (symbols of Roman womanhood), and boasts a pronounced crescent-moon-shaped ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests ... as the researchers write. The statue also offers valuable insight into the religious practices of ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Priestesses wielded political power and had the highest social standing possible for Roman women. Statues of priestesses ... that focuses on womanhood in ancient Pompeii, which will open on ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

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

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

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town ... tells a story about female fertility and birth. He, meanwhile, is dressed in the quintessentially Roman toga that instantly identifies ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...