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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The recent scientific analysis of a mysterious painting that hung in a church in Pompeii for centuries has revealed it to be by the Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna. A depiction of Christ’s ...

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 ...

An Iron Age settlement at the bottom of an Italy lake revealed more secrets. Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria The summaries ...

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