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

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

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

An ongoing excavation at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii yielded an unusual pair of marble funerary statues. The figures ...

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

City-building can be an exhausting affair, once you’ve evolved beyond the initial joy of cottage windows lighting up ...

The symbolism of the carved accessories of the woman may identify her as a priestess of Ceres, indicating her involvement in ...

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

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