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

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

Archaeologists have uncovered lifesize sculptures of a man and a woman in a newly excavated tomb in Pompeii’s Porta Sarno ...

She was the goddess of fertility and of the fruits of the harvest. She was worshipped throughout the Greek world and remained important to her Greek subjects even in the Roman imperial era.

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 mosaic depicts the four seasons and scenes from Roman mythology, which are associated with Bacchus, the god of wine and fertility. Only three of the original four corner roundels, depicting ...

Ewell had a Roman-era settlement that ... often depicts lapdogs with mother goddess figures, women with fruit baskets and with baby humans—all fertility symbols. The most compelling of these ...

Archaeologists have unearthed two almost life-size sculptures during excavations of a tomb in the ancient Roman city of ...