Two relief sculptures of a man and a woman have just been discovered during excavations of a tomb in Pompeii. The sculpture of the young spouse is particularly intriguing. Almost 2,000 years after ...

Archaeologists make breakthrough as life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb - ANALYSIS: New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in ...

By 79, Pompeii had a population of 20,000. The eruption lasted for two days. The first phase was of pumice rain,) lasting about 18 hours, allowing most inhabitants to escape.

The show assembles an unusual combination of modern and contemporary pieces with paintings and sculpture from the 18th and 19th centuries, and resin body casts of actual Pompeii volcano victims.

The heaviest piece is a sculpture of the Emperor Caligula, made from marble and weighing almost 2,000 pounds. Next, visitors experience the 4D theater, offering a three-minute recreation of the ...

POMPEII, Italy — This was a swinging town that had one really bad day. ... He even envisioned where each sculpture would go. They were installed in May and will remain until January 2017.

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. Archaeologists in Pompeii unearthed a rare tiny home while excavating the site of the ancient Italian city, officials said.

Pompeii was destroyed by nature in 79 A.D., more than 1,900 years ago. But as the museum notes, it was preserved in a volcanic time capsule after being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

A vistor walks next to a "Hermaphrodite asleep" sculpture, in Pompeii's site during a new exhibition entitled "Art and sensuality in the houses of Pompeii" on art and sexuality in the ancient city.

An exhibition at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute breathes life into August 24, 79 A.D. in Pompeii. It began as a sunny summer day and within 24 hours, everyone was dead.

The sculpture was in a replica of a Pompeii home in the town of Aschaffenburg, Germany, but was moved into storage before the building was destroyed during World War II.

Archaeologists make breakthrough as life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb. New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes ...