In Late Antiquity, Christian leaders condemned paganism, sometimes leading to violent attacks on divine statues. What do ...

Credit: Paolo Reda / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images "The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first ...

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated to a ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

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

Experts believe the use of a Roman statue as fill for a Christian church ... six centuries A.D. When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved ... discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and man, just outside the gates ...

Life and immortality. Everything we ask of art is in the eyes of these women, just two of the 58 extraordinary works of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection ...