Archaeologists have unearthed two almost life-size sculptures during excavations of a tomb in the ancient Roman city of ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

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

Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” the exhibition will feature 58 sculptures, according to a statement from the museum ... “In particular, the portraits of ...

“Women couldn’t participate in politics in the ancient Roman world so the way they could ... It added: “These types of sculptures are very rare in southern Italy. It is even more unusual ...

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 ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient ... after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple ...

A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology by Cecilie Brøns revealed that ancient Greco-Roman sculptures were impregnated with perfumes and aromatic substances, an aspect that ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient ... after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers such as Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. "Perfume and perfumed ...

In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary to the gleaming white aspect they bear today, Greco-Roman statues ... poured or sprayed. Sculptures in ancient Greece were covered ...

Sarcophagus Lid with Reclining Couple, second half of 2nd century CE (Roman ... animal sculptures and funerary monuments. Though bronze works were prevalent in ancient Rome, few have survived ...