Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture, fertility and motherhood. In Roman religion, she was symbolically connected to the ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

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.

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

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

The mosaic depicts the four seasons and scenes from Roman mythology ... Spring: Flora, goddess of flowers, wearing a garland. Summer: Ceres, goddess of agriculture, carrying a sickle.