For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

But, in reality, ancient Greeks and Romans embraced bold colors, which archaeologists call “polychromy.” Brightly hued paints ...

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

In the ancient Greek ... as the mythological Apollo, son of Zeus and Leto. Students and faculty from Greece’s Aristotle University of Thessaloniki unearthed the statue in 2023, according to ...

The seven-foot-tall statue of Apollo was discovered in the ruins of an ancient Roman house in 1489. It has been at the Vatican since the early 1500s, when Pope Julius II decided to bring the ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed.

Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their glistening white form, ...

Lost for centuries, a bronze statue of the Greek god Apollo mysteriously resurfaced ... which was ruled by ancient Egyptians, Philistines, Romans, Byzantines and crusaders at various times.

Excavations on the ruins of a fountain in Aspendos—an ancient Greco-Roman city now located in modern-day Turkey—unearthed a marble statue of ... he stole fellow god Apollo’s cattle ...

Researchers suspect the statues unearthed from the ancient city’s “East Street” could be a Roman imagining of Greek mythical figures made around the second century. What It Was Like To Go To ...