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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses. Reading time 3 minutes Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked ...
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Long-Lost Ancient Greek Sculpture Is Resurrected in Pompeii

The Canon of Polykleitos, a lost masterpiece of ancient Greek sculpture and an enduring symbol of Classical aesthetics, has been recreated by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, which has placed the ...
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Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains this tradition’s ancient roots

We are all born naked, and sculptures of the human body in its natural state are as old as humankind. In the history of art, nudity does not have just one meaning; it can express everything from ...
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Greek shipwreck yields bronze statues

Peeling back the layers of the ocean’s mysteries, the Antikythera shipwreck off the Greek coast continues to astonish us with its treasures. The latest find, a collection of bronze statues, not only ...