In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie ...

ATHENS, Greece - The life-sized marble statues of two ancient Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said Friday.

Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Were Meant To ... wrote about how the residents of Segesta in Sicily anointed a statue of the huntress goddess Artemis with “precious unguents,” as well as ...

Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient Greek temple dedicated to Egyptian cat goddess Bastet in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, the antiquities department said Tuesday.

THESSALONIKI, Greece – A 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera has been found in a wall of a city under Mount Olympus, mythical home of Greece's ancient gods, archaeologists announced Thursday.

MANITOU SPRINGS — Fifteen Hebes have staked out spots along Manitou Avenue, dressed in their glitzy, garish and psychedelic best. Hebe (pronounced HEE-bee) is the Greek mythology goddess of ...

The birth of Aphrodite Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, became Venus in the Roman pantheon. This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the ...

A 2,000-year-old statue of a Greek goddess looted in 2011 from Libya has finally been repatriated. ... around 100 similar three-quarter-length statues have been discovered in Cyrene, ...

The hometown of China’s terra-cotta army boasts two new statues that are rapidly becoming famous, to the chagrin of the college that commissioned them. They depict Athena, Greek goddess of ...

Two marble statues representing Aphrodite/Venus, the Greco-Roman goddess of love, were found recently at Petra, an ancient desert city in Jordan. Carved in a distinctly Roman style, the statues hint ...

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