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 ...

Archaeology & History Greek Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Marble Workshop Filled With Unfinished Statues. Images of Aphrodite and other female figures have been uncovered on the island of Paros.

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 ...

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, crews found a six-foot-tall carving of a standing woman draped in a tunic, crafted in a style reminiscent of the Roman empire’s Severan dynasty (193 to 235 A.D.).

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 ...

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.).

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.

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 ...