Let us consider one theory about the origin of the Easter Bunny. In recent times, a popular theory is that the Easter Bunny ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii's main ...

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

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

One theory points to the festival of Eostre, a pagan tradition of carrying baskets of young seedlings or eggs as an offering to Eostre, the goddess of fertility whose animal symbol was a bunny.

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 ...

Hildebrandt told TODAY that she did not use any fertility drugs and did not have difficulty conceiving. In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, Hildebrandt shared her happiness in ...

Beneath a stone foundation in Velzeke, Belgium, researchers recently made an astounding discovery: the well-preserved remains of an ancient Roman dog. This find was ... ritualistic association with ...