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KUOW - Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new ...

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.
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy ... - Gizmodo

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 ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

An ancient Greek statue of Hermes is displayed in the archeological museum in Olympia, Greece, in 2012. The motivation for scenting and adorning statues was primarily religious.
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study ...

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.
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study ...

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 ...