COPENHAGEN: 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 some were also perfumed.

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, ...

The stone structure ... A partial statue of a robed male figure, measuring about half a foot tall, was located. It is ...

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 ...

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of ...

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.