Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

Priestesses of Ceres, or sacerdotes Cereris, were women who devoted their lives to the worship and work of Ceres, goddess of harvest and agriculture. They were some of the only public priestesses, and ...

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

There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, agriculture, and harvests. Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the sun.