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

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

while senators could wear a white toga with the latus clavus, a broad purple stripe along the edge. Equestrian togas had a narrow purple stripe (clavus augustus). Roman society also involved a ...

Wearing a Roman toga and holding a scroll ... It first began as a Greek colony in 570 BC. The foundation said it was a major ...

Credit: Alfio Giannotti The man is wearing a toga indicating that he is a Roman citizen ... In February, paintings depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, were discovered.

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