Perhaps the most iconic Greek artform today, life-sized marble statues began to appear in Greece around the early 6 th century B.C. The practice originated nearly two centuries earlier (8 th ...

Experts used the stylistic qualities of the statue to date it back to the Roman Imperial Period (between the late 2 nd century A.D. to early 3 rd century A.D.).

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.

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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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a silver medallion depicting the Greek goddess Aphrodite in a 2,100-year-old ... Roman-era statues of Aphrodite and ... 480 B.C. that hints at an early Persian ...

Head of Aphrodite, 1st Cent. AD. The style of the hair, with horizontal curling above the forehead, a small tiara around the top of the ... In antiquity, heads were often carved separately from the ...

AMMAN — Two marble sculptures of Aphrodite were found in the building in Petra one metre above the floor level, said Professor Megan Perry from East Carolina University at the workshop “The Petra ...

Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art had a magnificent new treasure from ancient Rome to show its visitors this week: a smooth-limbed, white marble statue of Aphrodite, shown startled at her ...

Excavations on the island of Paros, Greece uncovered more historic evidence of how these statues were created, and now, archaeologists have an inside look at a sculpture workshop from the ...