Greek Reporter

The Colorful Bust of a Sad Deity Found at Amphipolis Ancient Grave

A female bust, dated at the end of the 4th century BC is one of the highlights of the Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis in ...
Savannah Magazine

Savannah’s Ancient Roman Statuary Story

While the podcast explores all the way back to Greenwich Plantation in the 1700s, the story of how the ancient Roman statuary ...
Greek Reporter

Alexander the Great’s Real Face and Build: Separating Myth from Reality

Alexander the Great’s legendary image, from his golden hair to his divine gaze, reveals how he masterfully turned his ...
PBS

Art Bites 119: Ancient Roman Sculpture, Portrait Busts, and Realism

Roman sculptors specialized in ultra-realistic, warts-and-all portrait busts. While Roman sculptors famously copied idealized Greek originals and dramatic scenes of myths, they specialized in ...
NPR

Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie Brøns, who ...
IFLScience

Why Do So Many Ancient Roman And Greek Statues Have No Noses?

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
NPR

What Kimmel and Colbert can learn from ancient comedians who ticked off their leaders

President Trump's celebration of Jimmy Kimmel's (now brief) and Stephen Colbert's (still happening) removal from the air — along with his calls for canceling other late-night comedians — may feel very ...