You'd be wrong to think the ancient Greek gods bled red like you and me, as ichor was the substance that defined their ...

“It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess.” Drawing on ancient texts ... was ritually treated with perfumed oils. On ...

These gods were a bit like ... Looking for more content on Ancient Greece to share with your students? This collection of short videos is about Ancient Greek civilisation and some of the most ...

One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? How did they die?

including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks. In particular, the twelve ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

In ancient Greece ... for the Greek City Times. In some instances, the scents were also applied in ways that helped preserve the statues. While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts, Brøns noticed ...

Smell like a god: Ancient sculptures were scented ... Previous research has found traces of pigments from long-faded paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues, showing that works long assumed ...

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced ... (Cult images refer to objects that are worshipped for representing gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman ...