In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked ... enhancing the religious and cultural significance of these sculptures,” writes Bill Giannopoulos for the Greek City Times.

The study adds to research from the past decade into the art of antiquity that has found that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors. The myth of whiteness in ...

Sculptures in ancient Greece were covered with perfume just as bodies were. The practice was known as kosmesis, a “super-adornment” that also involved applying textiles and jewelry.

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent study from Denmark has now discovered that some of these sculptures were ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

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

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

The dispute over the Elgin Marbles have been a long-running diplomatic sore in Britain’s otherwise friendly relationship with ...

British Museum chairman George Osborne said that "at some point, some of the sculptures" could be sent to Greece in return for "treasures" from Athens. As reported by AFP, Greek culture minister Lina ...

How would you spend your holiday in Greece - unravelling the mysteries of ancient civilisations or making the most of the ...