"It was quite a surprise to find it there a few centimeters beneath the ground." Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis, right beneath the main entrance gate to Pompeii, just uncovered a ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered two immaculately preserved statues which depict a man and a woman of high social status who lived in the community.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...

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 ...

We can also see the detailed work on the folds of the clothing and the ornaments ... in an exhibition that focuses on womanhood in ancient Pompeii, which will open on April 16.