The area was discovered in 1998 during the construction of a train line from Naples ... holding their religious objects,” Alapont said in the statement. “It is clear that there were priestesses of ...

The early dead of Collier's founding families were quite often interred right at home, creating pocket burial parks.

Today’s installment comes from a July 2016 article written by Naples Daily News staffer ... often in patterns interspersed with religious statues and silk or plastic flowers.

Its community of dead, including one of Naples' first year-round residents, Madison Weeks, was transplanted from near the location of St. Ann Catholic ... A lamb statue stands over the grave ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a ... laurel leaves – often used for purifying and blessing religious spaces by dispersing the smoke from ceremonial incense ...

(CNN) — Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during ... leaves – often used for purifying and blessing religious spaces by dispersing the smoke from ceremonial incense ...

"It was quite a surprise to find it there a few centimeters beneath the ground." Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno ...