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

Stunning Roman frescoes have been uncovered by archeologists in Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed ... "This is my favorite discovery in this excavation because it is complex and rare," Dr ...

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

Findings from the archaeological dig were published in the E-Journal of the Excavations of Pompeii. Interestingly, some of the woman’s accessories suggest she may have been a priestess of Ceres ...

E-Journal of the Excavations of Pompeii The statues have been moved within the archaeological site to the Palaestra Grand, where scientists are hard at work restoring them. They will be displayed ...

A near life-sized funerary relief of a couple emerged during an archaeological excavation at a monumental tomb in the Porta Sarno necropolis of Pompeii. The two high-relief sculptures were ...

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

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The current excavation, called "Investigating the Archaeology of Death in Pompeii," has been ongoing since July 2024. The funerary reliefs of a man and woman in Pompeii. / Credit: Alfio Giannotti ...