It was created in the 7th century BC - It was found in the mud in 1914, then disappeared, ending up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, until it was discovered by Greek-born prosecutor ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally divided into six ages, the Bronze Age, Iron Age ... mostly marble vessels and figurines, that the islanders buried with their dead. The Iron Age, also known as the ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you ...

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.

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the ...

Based on these ancient sources, two separate methods of applying perfumes to Greco-Roman statues can be identified. The first, known as ganosis, involved mixing waxes and fragrant oils in order to ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

The team found evidence of a major meteorite impact 3.5 billion ... Giant Ice Bulldozers: How Ancient Glaciers Helped Life Evolve Feb. 25, 2025 — New research has revealed how massive ancient ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have ... fertility and birth. The statues depict a woman, believed to be a priestess, and a man that is ...