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

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

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

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.

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

A Celtic fertility figure nicknamed Nobby, which resembles the Cerne Abbas Giant, has sold at auction for £3,000. Metal detectorist Bob Jemmett found the bronze figure, which measures 37mm by ...