In 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery in London. But why did this painting fire such outrage? Professor Bettany Hughes embarks on a voyage of ...

Around the second or third century C.E., a gold ring bearing the likeness of the Roman goddess Venus was lost on a road in what is now Brittany, France. The exact circumstances of the jewelry’s ...

Venus was the goddess of beauty in ancient Rome and her brightly shining planetary namesake lives up to that hype. When Venus is in the evening sky, you notice her. When she is in the predawn sky, you ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

Archaeologists have found a trove of artifacts, including two statues of the goddess Venus, in a Roman-era quarry-turned-trash-dump. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Sept 14 (Reuters) - Scientists have spotted evidence of potential life on the planet Venus, though they emphasized that more work needs to be done to confirm whether or not life - possibly aerial ...

It’s the story of one of antiquity’s most potent forces. A story of naked human desire and how that desire transformed who we are and how we behave. Classicist Bettany Hughes embarks on a voyage of ...