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

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

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

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

Shane Lehane, a folklorist at University College Cork (UCC), said that up until recently they were seen as “figures representing ... embodiment of the cycle of fertility that over-arches natural ...

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