Texts from Cicero, Callimachus, and other ancient writers describe how statues were anointed with fragrant oils and ointments ...

Artemis is generally known as the ancient Greek goddess of hunting; however, she was a deity with various cults associated ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, ... about the treatment of a statue of Artemis.

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in their masterpieces. According to new research, this also included the sense ...

Text from ancient Greek and Roman writers describes how statues of deities—including Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals—were anointed with perfumes.

Archaeologists recently made numerous "spectacular" discoveries at a long-forgotten temple to an Ancient Greek god, according to local officials. The Department of Antiquities in Cyprus shared a ...

Archaeologists excavating at the ancient city of Aspendos, 25 miles east of Antalya on the Turkish coast, have unearthed an incredible marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in ancient ...

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

A statue dating more than 2,000 years was allegedly found in a black bag near garbage bins in a part of the Greek city of Thessaloniki.

The statue was lost and destroyed at the end of the 6th century AD, but we know about it because it was shown on a whole lot of ancient Greek coins. Cool! 🏆 QUIZ: Do you know these Greek myths?

A 32-year-old Greek national found the statue on Jan. 18 in a black bag near the trash bins. The statue, believed to be from the Hellenistic period, is currently being held by authorities for ...