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 ...

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.

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. Researchers have known for many years that there was more ...

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.

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.

Now, a researcher says there's another aspect to these statues to consider: how they smelled. Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and ...