Breakthrough in mystery of life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb - ANALYSIS: New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes Emi ...

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

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

Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world – her own world came crashing down. In the middle of the civil war that would bring ...

the modeling of this unusually intact work is more plain and sedate than more ornate styles common in Roman sculpture at the time. — “Portus Relief,” late 2nd-early 3rd century, 29⅛ × ...