Sculptures in ancient Greece were covered with perfume ... and gold found at tombs and burial sites endure. One example is the Roman festival of Floralia, which was held annually from 173 B.C.E ...

Ancient Greeks and Romans often decorated sculptures with colorful paint ... Brøns tells All That’s Interesting’s Kaleena Fraga. “For example, a cult statue of a god or goddess with ...

Ancient sculptors and attendants practiced different ... has found concrete evidence to support historical records. For example, in Delos, the remains of facilities were discovered that suggest ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

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

Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection ... the ancient world” but may be interested in, for example, coming face-to-face with Marcus Aurelius ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...

COPENHAGEN: Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were ... statues in antiquity,” she said. Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment of a statue of ...

Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment ... More information: Cecilie Brøns, THE SCENT OF ANCIENT GRECO‐ROMAN SCULPTURE, Oxford Journal of Archaeology (2025). DOI: 10.1111/ojoa.

Based mainly on written evidence of various kinds, it can be shown that in ancient times ... detectable chemical traces on some sculptures (for example, rose perfumes, olive oil or beeswax).

For example, the statue "Laocoön and his Sons ... as a myth of whiteness in ancient art has long been perpetuatedImage: Alexandros Vlachos/EPA/picture alliance/dpa In the 20th century, fascism ...