The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

In Egypt, Isis was a goddess of fertility; she was also a mother and a symbol of death and rebirth. She therefore combined the duties of several Roman goddesses, including Cybele, Aphrodite and ...

The discovery sheds light on the lives of Roman women and how becoming a ... was a priestess in a cult dedicated to Ceres, the goddess of fertility, agriculture and crops, from which the word ...

The mosaic depicts the four seasons and scenes from Roman ... wine and fertility. Only three of the original four corner roundels, depicting the seasons, survive: Spring: Flora, goddess of flowers ...

The woman's figure includes carved accessories that may indicate she was a priestess of Ceres, a Roman harvest and fertility goddess. Researchers said that it is likely only women from prominent ...

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis dated to Rome’s Late Republican period.