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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Many ancient statues were scented, a ...
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Why Were Ancient Statues of This Egyptian Female Pharaoh Destroyed?

In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut—one of the civilization’s few female ...
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What Did Ancient Greeks Wear in the Winter?

What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question as all statues of Greeks in antiquity depict them dressed in ...
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Ancient Statues Emerge From the Waters Off Egypt's Coast, Where They'd Been Hiding for Thousands of Years

A trove of ancient statues, coins, pottery and pieces of a merchant ship has surfaced from the waters off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt. As reporters looked on, divers in wetsuits carefully ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

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 City ...