The gods were lovers, so it's fitting their statues were close. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. According to Greek mythology, the ...
A team of archaeologists led by professors at N.C. State and East Carolina universities made an unexpected find this summer in an old dump in the ancient city of Petra: two marble statues of the Greek ...
Aphrodite may be the Greek goddess of love and sensual desire, but for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, she has come to symbolize the nasty underworld of an illicit antiquities trade that has ...
Two marble statues representing Aphrodite/Venus, the Greco-Roman goddess of love, were found recently at Petra, an ancient desert city in Jordan. The statues, which date to the second century A.D., ...
New archaeological discoveries in Jerash have been described as “priceless” by historians and archaeologists, among them was an almost-whole sculpture of the Greek goddess of love and beauty ...
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Archaeologists have discovered two statue fragments of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, while excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeiopolis in Kastamonu's Taskopru district of Türkiye.
The Venus de Milo is one of the most representative statues of ancient Greece, it is immediately recognizable by its missing ...
A group of archaeologists has discovered a life-sized marble head of Aphrodite while uncovering an ancient pool-side mosaic in southern Turkey. Buried under soil for hundreds of years, the goddess of ...
The team found the pair of statue heads of the goddess of love and the god of wine-making during a dig in the ancient city of Aizanoi, in western Turkey. The two were fittingly found within close ...