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

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered ... Credit: Alfio Giannotti The man is wearing a toga indicating that he is a Roman citizen. Both are depicted wearing rings that may ...

Statues of priestesses holding items associated with their positions are very rare in southern Italy, the researchers said. The man is wearing a toga indicating ... the Greek god of wine, were ...

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

Peter Eastland/Alamy The Roman poet Virgil described the Roman people as 'gens togata' ('the race that wears the toga'), and in frescoes and statues the Romans would ... very long time. Ancient Greek ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

To read about a marble sculpture unearthed in the ancient Greek city of Philippi, go to "A Young Hercules." ...