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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...
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Archaeologists Discovered That An Ancient Greco-Roman Town In Egypt, Which Was Believed To Have Been Abandoned During The Fifth Century, Actually Survived Longer Than ...
For instance, archaeologists have recently found that an ancient Greco-Roman town in Egypt survived ... that contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire as well as the state of the environment ...
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The Fascination of Roman Emperor Nero With Greece
Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...
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Why the Roman Empire dominates our imagination
From viral memes to bestselling books, Hollywood blockbusters to history podcasts, the fascination with ancient Rome refuses ...
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A Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First Time
The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...
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The Empire's Religions
to different Egyptian and Greco-Roman gods. Paganism continues on even after the conversion to Christianity. [In the Roman Empire] you have an enormous set of religious options. It would be like ...
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The Collision with Paganism
IMMIGRANTS IN THE GRECO-ROMAN CITIES One of the characteristics of the Roman Empire [in] this period from the end of the Republic, right on down to the decline of the Roman Empire, is that there ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
Cecilie Brøns, who authored the study and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents ...