Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

Founded by Alexander the Great's father King Philip II in 356 B.C.E., the historic city of Philippi has become one of the ...

South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

Now, a researcher says there's another aspect to these statues to consider: how they smelled. Cecilie Brøns, a senior ...

Contemporary writings on art, including a book by Roman author Pliny the Elder, mention the fact that sculptures in ancient Greece were painted and not left with the white marble exposed.

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...

DELOS, GREECE—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 ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues were doused with pleasant scents like beeswax ... An archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, Brøns indeed found multiple ...