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 ...

The woman’s adornments suggest she was more important than the man, according to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. This, he said, could mean they were not married ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as part of a funerary relief. Experts believe the couple depicted were of ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii. Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Credit: Ministero della Cultura (The Italian Ministry of Culture) Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly lifesized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii’s main gates, ...

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