Ancient Greco-Roman Sculptures Were Not Just Visual Spectacles but Could Also Be ‘Smelt', They Were Scented For centuries, ...

Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.

New Greek and Roman archaeological discoveries including a funerary building, portraits, mummies, and statues were made in Fayoum, Egypt.

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome were once ... particularly for sculptures depicting deities. According to sources from Cicero ...

Contemporary writings on art, including a book by Roman author Pliny the Elder, mention the fact that sculptures in ancient Greece were painted and not left with the white marble exposed.

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in ...

Aphrodite, Zeus, Julius Caesar, the Parthenon model or portrait busts ... statue of the ancient Greek hero Heracles The collection includes a rich spectrum of ancient sculptures from the 8th ...