Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

Examining various ancient texts, Brøns found that the practice of applying perfumes to sculptures is described with surprising regularity. The great Roman statesman Cicero, for example, wrote about ...

An ancient carved stone head, possibly of a Roman god or philosopher, was uncovered beneath a 5th-century church in Rome, Italy.

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced visually ... For instance, according to Platt, Greek men would scent their bodies before they gathered to drink at the symposium, a social ...

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.

Sarcophagus Lid with Reclining Couple, second half of 2nd century CE (Roman, Imperial Period, Torlonia Collection, Rome), is featured in “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed. "A white marble statue ...

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced visually ... For instance, according to Platt, Greek men would scent their bodies before they gathered to drink at the symposium ...