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 ...

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.

2 statues discovered in Pompeii during tomb excavation 00:25. Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly ...

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.

In 79 A.D., the sky above the city of Pompeii, Italy, turned gray.But it wasn’t snow that began falling—it was ash. Mount Vesuvius was erupting. For 12 hours, the volcano rained ash and pumice ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered two immaculately preserved statues which ... appearing to be a single sculpture,” lead author Llorenç Alapont and his fellow researchers wrote of ...

Authorities at Pompeii in southern Italy are introducing a daily limit of 20,000 visitors as part of efforts to protect the ancient site. The measure, which will come into force from November 15 ...

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.

The Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii revealed ancient funerary carvings, ... Officials announced the discovery of a funerary relief, or sculpture, that depicts a young married couple, ...

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 ...

Authorities at Pompeii in southern Italy are introducing a daily limit of 20,000 visitors as part of efforts to protect the ancient site. The measure, which will come into force from November 15 ...