The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ...
Researchers uncover that ancient Greek statues were not just painted and dressed but also perfumed, adding a new dimension to ...
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, recently expressed his admiration for the ancient Greek ...
the recently discovered statue’s loose, draping clothing—as well as its marble composition—suggest the piece depicts a goddess. Contemporary sculptures of earthly Greek women were usually ...
Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek ... state), Juno (protector of women) and Minerva (goddess ...
None were more striking than a 6.5-foot-tall statue of Aphrodite (the Greek goddess of love and beauty ... crews found a six-foot-tall carving of a standing woman draped in a tunic, crafted ...