Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

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 ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

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 statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus was discovered in 1877, but its influential presence makes it a timeless piece ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.