During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

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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 Brøns, who ...

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Archaeologists unearthed pair of “monumental” heads at Hadrian’s Wall ruins in Carlisle and called it “find of a lifetime,” photos show. Screengrab from Cumberland Council's YouTube video Digging into ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is a North American stop for an exhibit featuring 58 Roman marble sculptures from the Torlonia Collection. Some museum visitors got an early look at the artworks ...

Roman sculptors specialized in ultra-realistic, warts-and-all portrait busts. While Roman sculptors famously copied idealized Greek originals and dramatic scenes of myths, they specialized in ...

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 researcher at ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...