Archaeologists make breakthrough as life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb - ANALYSIS: New discoveries are ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues depicting a man and a woman, Ancient Origins reported.

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

Travelers to Pompeii uncover ancient artifacts and vibrant frescoes, revealing life before Mount Vesuvius erupted.

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

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii's main ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., burying Pompeii in ash and pumice, it preserved a peerless body of frescos as well as evidence of the city’s paint workshops. Two sites are of particular ...

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

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls.

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues depicting a man and a woman, Ancient Origins reported. The statues were ...