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 ...

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

around 1700 years before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. As is typical, this woman was immediately labelled, by the archaeologists who uncovered her, as the man’s wife.

Much like today, they outsourced the task to others: painting workshops that ... When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., burying Pompeii in ash and pumice, it preserved a peerless body of frescos ...

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The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD is one of the ... where you see the finest treasures recovered from Pompeii, as well as world-class art collections. With Naples as your base, you'll also have ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments, offering glimpse the art of ancient Romans ... But at Pompeii, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius stopped artists in the ...

Researchers say the nearly life-size figures shed new light on life and religion in Pompeii, which was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. The discovery was made while researchers from ...