Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty. But these sculptures, now frozen in monochrome, looked dramatically ...

Italian archaeologists have uncovered several 2,000-year-old bronze statues from pre-Roman times in a Tuscan thermal spring, calling it an "exceptional find," The Italian Culture Ministry ...

The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming.

Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically stark white and devoid of decoration. But research by Brøns and others suggests that wasn’t always the case.

A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.

Now, a researcher says there's another aspect to these statues to consider: how they smelled. Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and ...

A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.

A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.

An ancient Greek statue of Hermes is displayed in the archeological museum in Olympia, Greece, in 2012. The motivation for scenting and adorning statues was primarily religious.