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Archaeologists Pulled a 2,000-Year-Old Headless Statue From a Possible Lost City

Relics that could be from the city of Canopus have been sitting at the bottom of a Mediterranean bay for almost two ...
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2,000-Year-Old Statues Resurface From Sunken City Off Alexandria, Egypt

Archaeologists recover ancient statues from underwater ruins near Alexandria, Egypt, shedding light on Ptolemaic and ...
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Why Are Most Ancient Roman Statues Headless?

Ancient Roman statues were often designed to accommodate interchangeable heads so that they could depict different individuals.
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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 same, either.
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Ancient statues were colorful — and perfumed - MSN

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study ...

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.
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new ... - WLRN

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.