The colors on most ancient statues had faded by the time they ... typically featured on Greek Gods, warriors and athletes, symbolized power. A gray skin tone symbolized virtue and bravery, while ...

510 B.C. on the grave of the Greek warrior, Aristion ... Vinzenz Brinkmann’s painstaking research into the ancient sculpture’s colors. The original statue came from the Temple of Aphaia ...

In ancient Greece and ... writes Bill Giannopoulos for the Greek City Times. In some instances, the scents were also applied in ways that helped preserve the statues. While reading ancient Greco ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

have unearthed an incredible marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology. Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and Nemesis have also ...

To read about a marble sculpture unearthed in the ancient Greek city of Philippi, go to "A Young Hercules." ...

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 ...