The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

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Mohamed Abdel-Badii, the head of the Egyptian Archaeology Sector, said the jewellery collection consisted of rings made of gold and metal and a statue of ancient Egyptian gods. The statuette depicted ...

Excavations on the ruins of a fountain in Aspendos—an ancient Greco-Roman city now located in modern-day Turkey—unearthed a marble statue of the god Hermes. “Figures that remained buried for ...

The jewellery collection consisted of rings made of gold and metal as well as a triple statue of ancient Egyptian gods, said Mohamed Abdel-Badii, the head of the Egyptian Archaeology Sector.

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Credit: Romaine / Wikimedia Commons The research is based on a series of classical texts describing how statues of gods and illustrious figures were perfumed. For example, the Roman orator Cicero ...

Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and Nemesis have also been discovered at the site. According to a statement from Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism ...