Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues ... also used to protect and preserve the statues and their paint. Verity Platt, a professor at Cornell ...

About 2,800 stones with inscriptions have been found on the Greek island of Delos ... that some oils and waxes were also used to protect and preserve the statues and their paint. Verity Platt, a ...

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

A Danish researcher has just demonstrated that certain Greek and Roman sculptures were scented with perfume. A discovery that revolutionises our sensory picture of ancient art. Greco-Roman statues ...

The allure of finding lost art treasures is real, but proving authorship—and determining an artwork’s commercial value—can be ...

Nearly a century after the base of a colossal statue of Ramesses II was uncovered in Egypt, archaeologists have found its long-lost top half—and ... “Hermopolis is the second-most productive site for ...

(Majors mirrored his character’s workout and diet regimen in real life, which is not necessarily a smart life choice but resulted in him looking like a perfectly sculpted Greek statue come to life.) ...

The United States of America isn't short on symbols that evoke a sense of national patriotism—from "the stars and stripes" to ...

Many mysteries remain about five murals painted at Port Arthur during a tourism boom in the 1880s, but it's hoped ...