New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

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 ...

And recently, archaeologists working in Pompeii uncovered graffiti likely ... a drawing that seems to portray two figures playing with a ball, an animal that is likely to be a wild boar and ...

The figures adorn the wall of a tomb found in a necropolis near one of Pompeii’s city gates. Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in ...

“The two life-size figures are sculpted separately on two ... in a study published by the E-Journal of the Excavations of Pompeii. “Both the bodies and heads of the well-to-do young married ...

The woman’s adornments suggest she was more important than the man, according to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. This, he said, could mean they were not married ...

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

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

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

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 ...