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 ...

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

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.

An ancient statue depicting the Greek god Hermes was uncovered by archaeologists inside an around 2,000-year-old Roman sewer in Bulgaria. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

ATHENS, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- An ancient Greek marble statue of a boy and fragments of similar statues were unearthed this summer on a small Aegean Sea island, Greece's Ministry of Culture said here ...