Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically stark white and devoid of decoration. But research by Brøns and others suggests that wasn’t always the case.

Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked vastly different from the ones we see in museums today. While most surviving Greco-Roman sculptural artifacts are pristinely white, thousands of years ago ...

In addition to smelling wonderful, Greco-Roman statues were also brightly colored and often draped in jewelry, fabrics, and garlands. Indeed, while these ancient pigments have now long since faded ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

When statues survive thousands of years, a few chips are to be expected. But why is it so common for Roman statues to be missing their heads? (Image credit: DEA / A. DAGLI ORT via Getty Images) ...

The statues were uncovered in Buckinghamshire while the researchers were excavating the Norman-built St. Mary's Church, the high-speed railway organization, HS2, said in a press release.

At least two statues — including one that the Times of Israel tentatively identified as a head of Athena dating to the 2nd century CE and a statue of a griffin holding a wheel of fate decorated ...

The discovery of perfectly preserved 2,000–year-old bronze statues in sacred thermal springs outside Rome will “rewrite history,” authorities said.

“Boom, it all lines up.” Re-attachments of ancient heads to their original statues are rare, but the Getty found the head of this Roman woman almost 50 years after it had acquired the torso.

Today, ancient Greco-Roman statues housed in museums are typically stark white and devoid of decoration. But research by Brøns and others suggests that wasn’t always the case.

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.