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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

ANALYSIS: New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... while the white skin of figures of young women "proclaimed grace and glow of youth," according to the museum's ...