While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

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

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city, which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as part of a funerary relief. Experts believe the couple depicted were of ...

Researchers say the nearly life-size figures shed new light on life and religion in Pompeii, which was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. The discovery was made while researchers from ...

(CNN) — Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii ... which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.