In a city filled with odd monikers, it's no surprise that New Orleans' Mardi Gras krewes have embraced their own unique names. But why do so many of these krewes have Greek, Roman and African ...

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 ...

New study claims Ancient Greek and Roman statues were perfumed. © Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...

"But one has to understand that our current, whitewashed idea of Greek and Roman antiquity is wrong. It's false." The knowledge that the Greek and Roman sculpture was brightly painted isn't new.