April
02
/ 2025
A team of archaeologists involved in ongoing excavations at the legendary doomed Roman city of Pompeii has discovered a striking funerary relief featuring statues of a man and a woman built to nearly life-size scale. Given their style of dress and overall presentation, it is obvious that these individuals were not gods but actual human beings belonging to the Roman Empire’s aristocratic class. The exquisitely carved statues were found in the Porta Sarno necropolis, during digs linked to a research project called Investigating the Archaeology of Death in Pompeii. This initiative was the brainchild of archaeologists and other researchers from the University of Valencia, who have been working in close collaboration with the Pompeii Archaeological Park. The project’s archaeological work
