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

Atop Cividade Hill in northern Portugal, the ancient city of Bracasa ... similar to those worn by Tyche, the Greek goddess of ...

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

It's an object that's always intrigued me, and I'm less and less sure that I understand it - it's the statue of ... filth goddess'. She was a figure of fertility, vegetation, and renewal, the ...

Researchers believe the female figure may have been a local woman of high rank, possibly a priestess of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility. The statue portrays her as veiled ...