The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

Her study, "The Scent of Ancient Greco-Roman Sculpture," was published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology this month.

Ancient Greek history is full of men who left their own mark for their military genius, bravery, artistic greatness, and ...

Drimachus led a slave revolt on Chios, ruling a rogue stronghold before betrayal. Organized resistance like that of Spartacus ...

Founded by Alexander the Great's father King Philip II in 356 B.C.E., the historic city of Philippi has become one of the ...

Ancient Greeks and Romans often decorated sculptures ... The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, ...

Many centuries later, these ancient beliefs that athletes should look like sculptures took on very different meanings. As Stocking says, “Greek sculpture has been appropriated for body fascism ...

The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture In ancient times, when approaching the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina, one would have seen a sculpture of a young archer, painted in ...

Many ancient Greek cities had a bouleuterion ... been positioned just above the columns of a building. They had been carved with letters measuring nearly a foot tall, which someone had later ...

Excavations on the ruins of a fountain in Aspendos—an ancient Greco-Roman city now ... Once fully assembled, the sculpture stood at just over 5 feet tall, including its pedestal.

Similarly bright doors and windows adorn its traditional syrmata — the huts found only around Milos and neighbouring Kimolos, carved ... only ones on a Greek island), the ancient theatre and ...

the use of perfumes and aromatic substances in ancient Greek and Roman statues. This revelation challenges the long-held view of classical sculpture as merely a visual art form, introducing a ...