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

Bhubaneswar witnessed a deeply spiritual and culturally significant event ahead of the Rukuna Rath Yatra of Lord Lingaraj as ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

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

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis dated to Rome’s Late Republican period.

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought ... a priestess in a cult dedicated to Ceres, the goddess of fertility, agriculture and crops, from which ...

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

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

The symbolism of the carved accessories of the woman may identify her as a priestess of Ceres, indicating her involvement in the religious sphere of Pompeii.

The significance of the blue lotus was confirmed in 1922 when Howard Carter found blue lotus petals covering the body of ...