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

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.

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

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

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

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii ... the ferryman who took the dead across the River Styx according to ancient Roman beliefs. “Women couldn’t participate in politics in ...

The ancient philosophy of Aristotle is aiming to transform life inside UK prisons through a classical education made ...

The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman ... the researchers write, Roman girls wore lunula amulets until marriage to protect themselves from ...