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

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis dated to Rome’s Late Republican period.

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 ...

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 ...

“It is clear that there were priestesses of Ceres in Pompeii, but this statue provides new evidence of the importance of the cult in the city. “In addition, the cult of Ceres has been linked ...