She is known as the Dea Nutrix or nursing goddess. When placed in the grave the figurine was already over 100 years old and may have been a treasured household goddess. Carefully placed around the ...

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

Two statues of the Chinese sea goddess Mazu boarding Xiamen Airlines flight MF881 departfrom Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport on March 29. Photo: Chinanews. com ...