When the Getty bought the Aphrodite for $18 million in 1988, the statue’s importance outweighed the signs of its illicit origins. “The proposed statue of Aphrodite would not only become the ...

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 ...

Today, the Getty has conceded doubts about the statue’s origins. The Aphrodite, which once promised to set the Getty’s collection apart, has become an icon of the museum’s troubled past.

Statuette of Aphrodite emerging from the sea, 1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Frank B. Bemis Fund Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 1st century B.C. Bathing vessel ...

The Aphrodite statue and floor mosaics were excavated last week and will be scientifically presented at an archaeological conference March 8-10 about archaeological finds in the Macedonia and ...

This figure of Isis-Aphrodite, an Egyptian statuette dating to the 2nd century A.D., looks even more modern to our eyes than some 1940s pin-up girls.

“Since Aphrodite statues have been associated with other contexts related to bathing, it is not inconceivable that the statues came from this or a similar building,” Perry said in an email.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think.

Next to the Aphrodite statue, researchers found another nearly 2-metre-tall statue of a woman with features from the time of Roman emperor Severus, who ruled from 193AD to 211AD.

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 ...