New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society all the ...

As a minimum, tourists really should plan to visit all three of these. Pompeii is the 'big' city preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, Herculaneum is the ancient Roman resort town (and ...

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

The woman’s adornments suggest she was more important than the man, according to Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park. This, he said, could mean they were not married ...