Susan Wright Photography In A.D. 143 or 144, when he was in his early 20s, the future Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius ... a surprising number of its original statues still stand.

Its monumental facade faced the rest of the ancient Roman town. Fragments of these statues — which ranged from gods to emperors to other ... evidence of the bath’s original splendor.

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.