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.

Samothrace, a small, rocky Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, has a storied past that belies its diminutive size.

The statues are of the stiff, highly formalized Kouros type widespread in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. which portrayed gods, heroes or aristocrats and were painted in bright colors.

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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.

Now, a researcher says there's another aspect to these statues to consider: how they smelled. Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and ...