Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked vastly different from the ones we see in museums today.
New research suggests these ancient statues may also have been perfumed.
This modern smellblindness can possibly cause us to miss a major potential attribute of the objects we study.
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/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Graphics by Canva.
Since physical traces of ancient perfumes on statues are nearly nonexistent, Brns turned to textual sources.
These texts mention things including sponges, oil, linen, wax, and rose perfume.
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Apparently, it did not.
