The U.S. Capitol may be a seat of government, but its design borrows heavily from religious architecture. This video explores ...

Book Description: This book is an essay on architectural drawings of the Greek and Roman world. The first chapter is focused on the possibility that ancient treatises of architectures were endowed ...

Archaeologists in Lebanon uncovered the oldest hydraulic lime plaster in Phoenician architecture, predating Roman concrete by ...

A UNESCO World Heritage site, the ruins at Paestum include three Greek temples built between 560 and 460 B.C. The most well-preserved is the Temple of Neptune, which visitors can enter and explore ...

Since physical traces of ancient perfumes on statues are nearly nonexistent, Brøns turned to textual sources. One of her earliest examples comes from the Roman writer Cicero (106–43 BCE), who ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either. Researchers have known for many years that there was more ...

Text from ancient Greek and Roman writers describes how statues of deities—including Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals—were anointed with perfumes.

Greek artisans or Roman artists writing in Greek often crowed about their artistic skill. It was they who developed the epigraphic form of artisan signatures. However, the collectors of such ...

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced visually, Brøns writes in her article. "Such scents could function as a way of creating a sensorial experience and even facilitating ...

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced visually, Brøns writes in her article. "Such scents could function as a way of creating a sensorial experience and even facilitating ...