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

The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated to a wealthy Roman family, according to the archaeologists who found it. The discovery sheds light on the lives of Roman women and ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.