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The Greek Island Hotels That Actually Live Up to the Dream
From Crete to Koufonisi, these design-forward hotels trade clichés for calm, craftsmanship and a slower way to see the Aegean.
Divers exploring ancient Greek shipwreck find statue fragments, retrieve pieces of wreckage
Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...
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The Smell of Gods: Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Once Not Only Painted But Also Perfumed
In Sicily, for instance, a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, was ritually treated with perfumed oils. On the Greek ...
Iconic Thera statue returns home as Santorini’s renovated archaeological museum reopens
The renovated Archaeological Museum of Thera opens with the acclaimed exhibition 'Cycladic Women: Unknown Stories', ...
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Greek Dig Reveals Ancient Marble Workshop With Unfinished Statues
Archaeology & History Greek Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Marble Workshop Filled With Unfinished Statues Images of Aphrodite and other female figures have been uncovered on the island of Paros.
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Gateway Arch, Psyche and Eros sculpture proposed for Allentown
In the not-too-distant future, visitors going to downtown Allentown on Hamilton Street will pass through a gateway arch just before being greeted by the replica of a historic sculpture that capture… ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
An ancient Greek statue of Hermes is displayed in the archeological museum in Olympia, Greece, in 2012. The motivation for scenting and adorning statues was primarily religious. "It was primarily a ...
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The Sensory Experience of Ancient Greek and Roman Statues
Ancient texts and epigraphic records document this practice, indicating that the aesthetic experience in classical antiquity was far more complex than previously understood. The study references ...
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2,000-Year-Old Greek Statue Found Abandoned in a Bag Near Trash Cans: Police
A statue dating back more than 2,000 years was allegedly found in a black bag near garbage bins in a part of the Greek city of Thessaloniki. In a Wednesday, Jan. 22 press release, the Greek Police ...
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2,000-year-old Greek statue found dumped near trash cans in ...
Man finds 2,000-year-old Greek statue dumped near trash cans Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was worse for ...
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Victorious Youth: Doubts Arise Over Creator of Iconic Greek Statue
Romans probably carried the statue off from its original location during the first century BC or AD, when Roman collecting of Greek art was at its height. The ship carrying it may have foundered, ...
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Exhibition of ancient Greek and Roman art opens in Taiyuan
A visitor views the "Classical and Glory" Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Arts exhibition in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Jan 1. WEI LIANG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE TAIYUAN — "To the glory that was ...