Athena, Hera and Aphrodite vied ... according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as ... inscriptions reveal that statues of Artemis and Hera were maintained with rose-scented perfumes.

Many significant ancient Greek temples are found not only in Greece but also in other countries that were once part of the ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created ... and oils used on statues of gods such as Artemis and Hera. According to the researcher who published the study ...

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

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.

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