The J. Paul Getty Museum’s iconic statue of Aphrodite was quietly escorted back to Sicily by Italian police last week, ending a decades-long dispute over an object whose craftsmanship ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excavations in the ancient city of Perge have led to the discovery of five statues from different historical periods. Among the discoveries is an approximately two-meter-high statue of Aphrodite ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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. With her combination of Greco-Roman fleshiness ...

The Goddess Goes Home Following years of haggling over its provenance, a celebrated statue once identified as Aphrodite, has returned to Italy ...

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 ...