Smithsonian Magazine16h
Discover the 14,000 Ancient Roman Artifacts Just Donated to the London Museum
Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...
Greek Reporter1d
Ancient Temple of Greek Goddess Athena in Turkey Reopens After Restoration
The 2,000-year-old Temple of Greek Goddess Athena, Turkey, has reopened after a major restoration led by the Ministry of ...
Live Science2d
Tumaco-Tolita gold figurine: A 2,000-year-old statue with a 'fancy nose ornament' from a vanished South American culture
The Tumaco-Tolita people, who lived in an area rich in natural gold, crafted intricate and delicate metal objects until the ...
Greek City Times4d
Ancient Bronze Griffin Head Returned to Greece from Met
An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, was repatriated to Greece from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of ...
The Paris Review4d
“A Threat to Mental Health”: How to Read Rocks
PLEASE wake up! No matter what cavern idiots tell you in the back of your mind, look at these stones and understand what they ...
Greek Reporter4d
World Poetry Day: Ancient Greece’s Classics, From Homer to Sappho’s Poems
As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...
Cambridge Day6d
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: ancient games, armored fights, Ouroboros dance
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Ancient Game Night, “Ouroboros” and “¡A Bailar!” ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed
Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...
The Street Journal7d
Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...
ZME Science7d
The Smell of Gods: Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Once Not Only Painted But Also Perfumed
For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.
Ancient statues were colorful — and perfumed
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ...