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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...