Archaeologists have uncovered the long-lost top half of a massive Ramesses II statue—nearly a century after its base was ...

From the shores of Papua New Guinea to the tantalizing Greek Isles to, this luxury French cruise line opens up a world of ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

The Acropolis is a massive archaeological site brimming with the artistic monuments and wonders of ancient Greece. Here are ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie Brøns, who ...

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

Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment of a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis in Sicily ... when approaching the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina, one would have seen ...

In ancient times, when approaching the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina ... many of the statues were preserved with some colors intact, such as a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis.

In Sicily, for instance, the statue of Artemis was ritualistically anointed with perfume ... For example, a cult statue of a god or goddess with such decoration placed in a temple, would have given ...

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek researcher Cecilie Brøns examined passages in classical literature that reference the perfuming of some sculptures, such as Cicero’s mention of the statue of Artemis at ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found ...