Originally from Poland, the North Bennet Street School department head of violin making and repair is an expert in the ...

A Danish researcher has just demonstrated that certain Greek and Roman sculptures were scented with perfume. A discovery that revolutionises our sensory picture of ancient art.

Ancient Greco-Roman Sculptures Were Not Just Visual Spectacles but Could Also Be ‘Smelt', They Were Scented For centuries, ...

Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.

Unused paints are generally rare finds for archaeologists — but not at Pompeii. Take a look at “almost the entire palette of ...

Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their glistening white form, ...

BRUSSELS — February 25, 2025 — On February 19-20, 2025, social partners from the Italian textile and fashion industry met in Rome to deepen their understanding of the upcoming EU legislations and ...

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Greco-Roman art has been ... polychromed and adorned with textiles and jewelry but also impregnated with fragrances. This practice, documented in literary and epigraphic texts, suggests that the ...

Lechaion was the largest harbor in ancient Greece, a hub for Phoenican, Mycenaean, Byzantine, and Roman ships which passed through carrying trade goods such as pottery, fragrances, and textiles.

The ancient road that ran through northern Greece and connected Rome to Byzantium. Credit: Berthold Werner via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Roman civilization is well known for its stunning mosaics ...

“But the Caucasus is just as good, but a bit smaller and less famous.” Under the Soviet Union, and under pressure from modern, mass-produced textiles, local rug making had largely died out, with only ...