Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

In ancient Greece and Rome ... Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily.

The myth that the statues ... goddess Artemis. However, according to information published on the "Gods in Color" website, "Unsuitable research methods and diverging understandings of ancient ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient ... cult statues in antiquity," she said. Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt ...