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.

But, during antiquity, these statues were actually brightly colored — and, as explored in a new study, they were even coated ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... while the white skin of figures of young women "proclaimed grace and glow of youth," according to the museum's ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

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.

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

Both Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler particularly praised the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, and the idea of white classical statues was useful in the ... while the white skin of ...