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

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 deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...

The quality of the sculptures and their features suggest they were created during the late Republic, a period from 133 to 31 B.C., marking the last period before the rise of Rome’s first emperor.

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated ...

of water per second while Rome’s water management company, ACEA, carefully monitors the flow around the clock. This precise amount is crucial for the movement of water through the statues ...

One of her earliest examples comes from the Roman writer Cicero (106–43 BCE), who described a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis in the city of Segesta. He writes that women “anointed her ...

Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment of a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis ... the figure of a young woman had traces of orange coloring on her locks of hair. Archaeologists saw the ...

Courtesy of Bvlgari The Torlonia marbles stand as the largest private collection of Imperial Roman sculptures preserved to date ... power wielded by the women of elite Roman families. Courtesy of ...