The Buddhist deities depicted here have round faces, thick lips, deep-set eyes and high-bridged noses. Their physiques are ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

It is common to consider Jesus as the founder of Christianity, similar to Muhammad for Islam, Buddha for Buddhism ... triumph of Christianity in the Greco-Roman world. This controversy was ...

Founded around 331 BCE, this city somehow survived conquests, earthquakes, and centuries of abandonment, only to reemerge as one of the best-preserved Greco-Roman cities in the world. Unlike ruins ...

Pyrrho of Elis, marble head, early Roman copy (2nd century BC ... the first anthropomorphic representations of the Buddha himself are often considered a result of the Greco-Buddhist interaction.

An Indo-Corinthian capital with a palmette and the Buddha at its centre from Gandhara, 3-4th century. Credit: Public Domain Other celebrated Asian artworks have also been attributed to the Greeks. 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 ...