Ancient Greco-Roman Sculptures Were Not Just Visual Spectacles but Could Also Be ‘Smelt', They Were Scented For centuries, the world has admired the stunning beauty of ancient Greek and Roman ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

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

It’s been a day packed with sightseeing and lessons in Greek history. Led by our Greek guide, Nanda, we walked to the ...

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

In ancient Greece and Rome ... works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents like ...

She made the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple inscriptions show that some statues ...

Previous research has found traces of pigments from long-faded paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues ... THE SCENT OF ANCIENT GRECO‐ROMAN SCULPTURE, Oxford Journal of Archaeology (2025).

To read about a marble sculpture unearthed in the ancient Greek city of Philippi, go to "A Young Hercules." ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

The ancient Romans were surrounded by media ... A copy of a then-500-year-old Greek sculpture, the modeling of this unusually intact work is more plain and sedate than more ornate styles common ...