Workers carrying out a beach restoration project in Alicante got an unexpected surprise when they uncovered amarble Roman ...
In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie Brøns, who ...
The ancient Romans weren’t precious about their marble statues. They didn’t sequester them in museums, displaying them out of reach, next to placards explaining their provenance, context, and meaning.