Ancient sculptures were scented, Danish study shows Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish study has revealed that ...

The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... Guy Devreux, a curator at the Vatican Museums’ stone and marble restoration workshop, tells Reuters ...

Torso pieces were also found in the same region. Researchers believe they belong to statues of Artemis—goddess of hunting, ...

have unearthed an incredible marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology. Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and Nemesis have also ...

These gods were ... another famous Greek hero, Perseus, killed a monster called Medusa. Medusa was a Gorgon who had venomous snakes instead of hair. She could turn people to stone just by looking ...

None were more striking than a 6.5-foot-tall statue of Aphrodite (the Greek goddess of love and beauty) sitting atop a base depicting Eros (the Greek god of love and desire) seated on a dolphin.