Since physical traces of ancient perfumes on statues are nearly nonexistent, Brøns turned to textual sources. One of her earliest examples comes from the Roman writer Cicero (106–43 BCE), who ...

Archaeologists have known that Greco-Roman statues were coloured, since the very first archaeological digs in the 18 th century. The Parthenon in Athens, for example, bears many traces of past ...

The "Square Colosseum" in Rome, Italy, is much less famous than its ancient counterpart, but its architecture is truly something worth seeing.

American tourist arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues by: Talia Naquin. Posted: Oct 6, 2023 / 07:31 AM EDT. Updated: Oct 6, 2023 / 07:31 AM EDT.

The sculptures were knocked off their pedestals and had broken into several pieces. One is a marble head of the ancient Greek goddess Athena that was discovered in 1978 in Tel Naharon, northern ...

World News An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel The tourist's lawyer said he was suffering from a mental disorder that psychiatrists have ...

03/18/2025 March 18, 2025. The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies.

JERUSALEM >> Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after he hurled works of art to the floor, defacing two second-century Roman statues.

This image released by Israel Police shows two ancient Roman statues toppled at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after he hurled works of art to the floor, damaging two second-century Roman statues. The ...