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Archaeologists Unearth Monumental Tomb Near Fabled Ancient Greek City
Archaeologists digging near the ancient city of Tenea in Greece have unearthed a monumental tomb complex housing precious ...
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 ...
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
and drapery that reflect the evolving artistic sensibilities of the Roman period. The Classical era of ancient Greek sculpture, which emerged in the 5th century BCE, is renowned for its emphasis ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...
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Honoring Women: Renowned Greek Sculptor Unveils Work at UN
Greek-born sculptor George Petrides presented Greece's UN representative with a sculpture of an ancient Greek female figure ...
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Spectacular statues reveal art tradition of ancient Rome’s lost sculpture capital
Researchers suspect the statues unearthed from the ancient city’s “East Street” could be a Roman imagining of Greek ... period around 1650-1200BC, was once a key centre for sculpture-making ...
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Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
Dating back to the Archaic period about 530 B.C., and made of marble ... according to the museum's description. Color in ancient Greek art was also often likely used to show gender: Men were ...