The Rod of Asclepius is a striking emblem: a simple staff with a lone snake coiled around it, universally acknowledged as a symbol of medicine and healing.
Researchers have found chemical evidence of wine consumption in ancient Troy, confirming a theory by Heinrich Schliemann.
In ancient times, the mountaintops of Greece held the shrines and ritual sites of the gods. Now, they’re astonishingly ...
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Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Were Meant To Be Sniffed – And They Smelled DivineGreco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in their masterpieces. According to new research, this also included the sense ...
A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and ...
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...
An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.
Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.
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