So the next time you stand in front of an ancient Greco-Roman statue, remember that thousands of years before you, its scent may have been as lovely as its form.
A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology by Cecilie Brøns revealed that ancient Greco ... Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero refers to the custom of anointing the statue ...
As part of Türkiye’s ongoing “Heritage to the Future Project,” archaeologists were excavating the ancient Greco-Roman city of ...
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 ...
A relief of the harbor at Portus dating to the second or third century C.E. Torlonia Foundation / Lorenzo De Masi One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is ...
A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has revealed a little-explored aspect of ancient art: the use of perfumes and aromatic substances in Greco ... the Roman orator Cicero ...