Greco-Roman statues are striking in their simplicity due to their stark white coloring and blank eyes. But, during antiquity, these statues were actually brightly colored — and, as explored in a new ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ...

Torso pieces were also found in the same region. Researchers believe they belong to statues of Artemis—goddess of hunting, ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours and now a Danish ...

Researchers uncover that ancient Greek statues were not just painted and dressed but also perfumed, adding a new dimension to ...

Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their glistening white form, ...

Archaeologist and curator Cecilie Brons makes the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers such as ...

such as the anointing of the statue of Artemis in Segesta, mentioned by Cicero, or the perfumed statue of Queen Berenice II, ...

The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced on Monday the discovery of a marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus—the pantheon's chief deity or a sky and weather god in Greek mythology ...

A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has revealed a little-explored aspect of ancient art: the use ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish ...