Roughly 3,000 years ago, someone living in a village on the shores of what's now Lake Bolsena, 50 miles northwest of Rome, was sculpting a figurine of a goddess. Measuring six inches tall and made of ...
She is known as the Dea Nutrix or nursing goddess. When placed in the grave the figurine was already over 100 years old and may have been a treasured household goddess. Carefully placed around the ...
Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish ...