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

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 ...

For instance, the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero refers to the custom of anointing the statue of Artemis in the ancient city of Segesta with perfumes. In the sanctuary of Delos, inscribed ...

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek researcher Cecilie Brøns examined passages in classical literature that reference the perfuming of some sculptures, such as Cicero’s mention of the statue of Artemis at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The city was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D., and as a result, many of the statues were preserved with some colors intact, such as a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis.

It is a packed yet ordered composition complete with its own integrated carved frame. Statue of Artemis Ephesia, 2nd century CE. Roman, Imperial Period. Torlonia Collection, Rome.

Standing 403 feet (123 meters) tall—about 100 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty—Starship ... of Starship as a lunar lander for its Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to ...