Archaeologists Stunned to Find Statue Heads of the ‘Goddess of Beauty’ and the ‘Deity of Wine’ in Turkey Religious faith ...

Archaeologists unearthed two statues of the Aphrodite at the ancient city of Pompeiopolis in Kastamonu, Turkey. The fragments were found during ongoing excavations in the Odeon, a concert hall ...

I had traveled more than 6,000 miles to ask Canavesi about one of the world’s most contested pieces of ancient art: a 2,400-year-old statue of a woman believed to be Aphrodite, the Greek goddess ...

The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Many ancient statues were scented, a researcher says. A sculpture of ...

Other excavations of the site also uncovered pieces from statues of Aphrodite, Eros, Artemis, and Nemesis. Recently, the “Heritage for the Future” project uncovered a king’s mosaic house in ...

One of the sculptures is a striking 2-metre-high statue of the goddess of love, Aphrodite, sitting on a base depicting the god Eros seated on a dolphin. Next to the Aphrodite statue, researchers ...

After Aphrodite promised him the love of the most ... were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in antiquity.

Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and Nemesis have also been discovered at the site. According to a statement from Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism ...