The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ...

Since physical traces of ancient perfumes on statues are nearly nonexistent, Brøns turned to textual sources. One of her earliest examples comes from the Roman writer Cicero (106–43 BCE), who ...

The Greek poet Kallimachos, meanwhile, described a sculpture of the Egyptian queen Berenice II as “wet with perfume”, while other texts by the likes of Pliny the Elder and Vitruvius also ...

The National Gallery welcomes July with major and smaller exhibitions, some continuing and others opening soon, along with educational programs for children and families ...

Victory celebration. Long before the famous statue existed, the first Olympic Games, part of a festival honoring Zeus, were held in the Greek city-state of Elis in 776 B.C.

The discovery of an antique bronze statue such as that found on Sunday, Feb. 8, or even the part of one, is an event of the greatest rarity. Since the commencement of the building operations for ...

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.

The statues would have smelled sweet, with scents from roses, ... Previous research has found that the Ancient Greeks and Romans didn’t experience their statues the same way as modern viewers.

Perhaps the most iconic Greek artform today, life-sized marble statues began to appear in Greece around the early 6 th century B.C. The practice originated nearly two centuries earlier (8 th ...