Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

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

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

A new discovery has done just that. Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii’s main gates. The sculptures were found ...

Archaeologists have uncovered lifesize sculptures of a man and a woman in a newly excavated tomb in Pompeii’s Porta Sarno ...

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

open image in gallery The sculptures depict a man and woman standing side by side (Archaeological Park of Pompeii/Alfio Giannotti) Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by ...

The city of Pompeii was buried under ash and volcanic ... They were found in 2021 at the necropolis of Porta Sarno, in a tomb bearing a commemorative inscription dedicated to Marcus Venerius ...