Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered two immaculately preserved statues which depict a man and a woman of high social ...

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 ...

A 1,700-year-old marble statue of Hercules has been unearthed at the mediaeval site of Montaione in Tuscany. Discovered by an ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a necropolis in the Porta Sarno region of Pompeii, according to two April 1 news ...

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

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman ... these types of sculptures are very rare in southern Italy. It is even more unusual to find reliefs of priestesses ...

Statues of priestesses holding items associated with their positions are very rare in southern Italy, the researchers said. The female figure was carved holding laurel leaves, which may indicate ...