Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically stark white and devoid of decoration. But research by Brøns and others suggests that wasn’t always the case.

This statue head was found in the ancient city of Philippi in northeastern Greece. Experts believe the statue is of the Greco-Roman god Apollo. Hellenic Ministry of Culture The ruins of the ...

Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked vastly different from the ones we see in museums today. While most surviving Greco-Roman sculptural artifacts are pristinely white, thousands of years ago ...

A 1,800-year-old, life-sized Greco-Roman statue looted nearly six decades ago from present-day Turkey has gone on its final display at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Following more than a year ...

“Boom, it all lines up.” Re-attachments of ancient heads to their original statues are rare, but the Getty found the head of this Roman woman almost 50 years after it had acquired the torso.

In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary to the gleaming white aspect they bear today, Greco-Roman statues and temples were flamboyantly painted. Cecilie Brøns, a ...

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.