While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii's main ...

The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

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 ...

“Both the bodies and heads of the well-to-do young ... Archaeo Travelers/Archaeological Park of Pompeii The female statue has a symbol carved into its midsection which archaeologists posit ...

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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 ...

The bodies were presented in their wrapped state ... The museum's current exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City, displays resin copies of 19th and 20th century casts of those who perished ...