Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii’s main gates. The sculptures were found inside a large funerary monument built ...

Since 1998, researchers have found evidence of over 50 cremation burials in the necropolis. The current excavation, called "Investigating the Archaeology of Death in Pompeii," has been ongoing ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments, offering glimpse the art of ancient Romans ... and the roughly 200 pots of unused paints found around Pompeii, recently ...

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

What’s fascinating is that this isn’t unique to Pompeii. In my new book, Mythica, which looks at the women not of Rome but of Bronze age Greece, I’ve found that new discoveries in ...

The woman’s adornments suggest she was more important than the man, according to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological ... They were found in 2021 at the necropolis of ...

This produced the largest cache of pigments ever found in Pompeii, 150 pots in all, alongside other tools of the trade including stone pestles, scales, spatulas, and a whetstone. In a sign of work ...

The pair were found in a necropolis on the outskirts of Pompeii, which was abandoned after the devastating eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. Human bones were found in the tomb – likely the ...