Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and ...

The statues of Egyptian gods Amun, Mut, and Khonsu may have been worn as amulets. Despite their hierarchical society, jewelry was for everyone in ancient Egypt. The poorest farmers and the richest ...

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

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

"A white marble statue was not intended to be perceived as a statue in stone. It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess ... herself in the works of Roman writers such as Cicero and ...

Cecilie Brøns, who authored the study and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues ... a cult statue of a god or goddess ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

The sun and the moon, in the timeless stone we'd carve. Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head of a baboon or an ibis (a ...

(Cult images refer to objects that are worshipped for representing gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue of Artemis.