For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

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

Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the forest and animals in Greek mythology, in the Sicilian city of Segesta which was anointed with ...

Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment of a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis in Sicily, while the poet Callimachus’ description of the statue of Queen Berenice II of Egypt. The study also ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed. “A white marble ...

A marble statue of Hermes from the Roman Imperial ... Body fragments thought to belong to Artemis, the goddess of hunting, wild nature, and animals, and Nemesis, the symbol of justice, balance ...

Torso pieces were also found in the same region. Researchers believe they belong to statues of Artemis—goddess of hunting, wildlife, and nature (also known as Diana in Roman mythology)—and ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed. In Delos, in Greece ...

The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced on Monday the discovery of a marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus—the pantheon's chief deity or a sky and weather god in Greek ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...

(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.