The statue of St. John Paul II at Gemelli Hospital ... Currao recalled the story of Jesus healing the Roman centurion's servant. "We invoke this healing for all the sick throughout the world ...

He would always be a pale shadow of the charismatic founder of the Roman Empire ... his troops by appointing each military tribune and centurion personally. This gave him command over an army ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

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 ...

Credit: Romaine / Wikimedia Commons The research is based on a series of classical texts describing how statues of gods and illustrious figures were perfumed. For example, the Roman orator Cicero ...

A marble statue of Hermes from the Roman Imperial Period was found during the 2024 excavation season in the ancient city of Aspendos, according to CNN Türk. The marble statue depicts Hermes ...

A Roman sea god statue had its head cut off during a ritual burial, historians have uncovered. The effigy of Triton was dug up off the A2 in Teynham in September last year but a study has now ...

Previous research has found traces of pigments from long-faded paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues, showing that works long assumed to be white were in fact highly colorful. More information ...

But apparently you despise her.” The statue was a gift of friendship to America from France. Inaugurated in 1886, it represents Libertas, the Roman liberty goddess, bearing a torch in her right ...