(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. People ...

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

(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.

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

"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 ...

A life-sized statue ... god Neptune holding a trident. It was likely provided as a symbolic payment to Charon, the ferryman who took the dead across the River Styx according to ancient Roman ...

The Seven Wonders of the World are often seen as the pinnacle of human architecture and the perfect form of engineering, that ...

Among an alabaster monument to King Seti I and a curious statue of the Roman emperor Caracalla in the guise of an Egyptian pharaoh, the most staggering figure is that of Rameses II, a 83-ton ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...

“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 like 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 ...