Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted ... that some of these sculptures were also scented. “A white marble statue was not intended ...

ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically stark white and devoid of decoration. But research by Brøns and others suggests that wasn’t always the case. By the time people in ...

including a book by Roman author Pliny the Elder, mention the fact that sculptures in ancient Greece were painted and not left with the white marble exposed. Yet many people today are surprised to ...

These two colors were “fundamental” to the ancient Roman painters of Pompeii. The team also identified a “new pigment mixture” in the form of a gray paint, the study said. An ancient white pigment ...

For centuries, the stark white marble ... cultural rituals of ancient Greece and Rome. Texts from Cicero, Callimachus, and ...

including a book by Roman author Pliny the Elder, mention the fact that sculptures in ancient Greece were painted and not left with the white marble exposed. Yet many people today are surprised to ...

The colors range from creamy white to turmeric ... so many hues were Egyptian blue and red lead, the study said. These two colors were “fundamental” to the ancient Roman painters of Pompeii.

A recent study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology by Cecilie Brøns revealed that ancient Greco-Roman sculptures were impregnated ... Greece and Rome, people honored the gods with ...