Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece ... Per the Greek geographer Pausanias, olive oil was regularly applied to the famous Statue of Zeus at ...

Greece is home to some of the world’s most famous Greek temples ... the temple but also embody the grace and beauty of ancient Greek art. Each Caryatid stands in a different pose, adding ...

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

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

One of the most famous examples of a statue on which ... of youth," according to the museum's description. Color in ancient Greek art was also often likely used to show gender: Men were depicted ...

New research suggests that sculptures were perfumed with sweet-smelling fragrances such as rose and beeswax Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in ...

Sculptures in ancient Greece were covered with perfume just as bodies were. The practice was known as kosmesis, a “super-adornment” that also involved applying textiles and jewelry.

A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology by Cecilie Brøns revealed that ancient Greco-Roman sculptures were ... In ancient Greece and Rome, people honored the gods with ...