Ancient Greeks and Romans perfumed their statues, study says
The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...
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Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Were Meant To Be Sniffed – And They Smelled Divine
Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...
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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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Ancient sculptures were scented, study shows
COPENHAGEN: Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were ... Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the ...
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Archaeology breakthrough as scientists uncover part of ancient statue that could solve century-old puzzle
A Buddha statue torso has been unearthed at the ancient Angkor temple complex. The remarkable find is believed to match a head discovered nearly 100 years ago during the French colonialist era. The ...
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I toured the Getty Villa weeks after 17 employees fought flames from the Los Angeles fires. Here's how it became an anti-fire fortress.
Borsay said everybody was allowed to leave but many people chose to stay behind to protect the estate and its ancient statues and artifacts. "This is everybody's shared cultural history that we're ...
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NASA, partners push to speed up launch of Artemis II
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — There’s a sense of urgency among NASA and its partners aiming for the first human spaceflight of the Artemis program. Artemis II is slated to launch four astronauts on ...
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Ancient Sheela na Gigs, Irish statues of women exposing themselves, explained
Found all around Ireland and in the UK, these X-rated 11th-century statues depict women exposing their private parts with huge grimaces on their faces but what's the history behind these grotesque ...
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The ancient horsemen who created the modern world
For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...
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NASA's Artemis 2 crew wants your help designing the plush toy that will fly with them around the moon.
NASA's Artemis 2 crew is seeking an original idea for their zero-g indicator (ZGI), a stuffed toy or doll that will be suspended from a tether in their Orion spacecraft to signal when they enter ...