Did you know that ancient sculptures were once richly coloured? Researchers have known about this for centuries, but the general public remains largely unaware.

After reading about how ancient Roman-Greco statues were perfumed as well as painted ... earning a place in the Phi Alpha Theta honor society for history students. An editor at All That's Interesting ...

Echoes of Egypt’s ancient design permeate ... from its earliest beginnings to the Greco-Roman era, while a vertical division explores key themes—society, kingship and beliefs.

They already formed, on the periphery of ancient empires ... While remaining faithful to Semitic paganism, they adopted a Greco-Roman way of life, as evidenced by the ruins of their capital ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

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as well as the ability to analyse texts from the Greco-Roman and Ancient Near Eastern world. You also discover how much ancient languages and texts can teach us about broader concepts such as religion ...

But, in reality, ancient Greeks and Romans embraced bold colors, which archaeologists call “polychromy.” Brightly hued paints ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...

A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology by Cecilie Brøns revealed that ancient Greco-Roman sculptures were impregnated with perfumes and aromatic substances, an aspect that ...

The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...