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 ...

It is the head from a life-size or near life-size statue of Aphrodite. “What makes it remarkable, partly, is that it's so early,” Powers says.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have made the stunning discovery of Roman-era statues of Aphrodite and Dionysus in Turkey. ... The earliest settlements in the area date back as early as the second millennium BC.

The statues are Roman in style, suggesting they date from after the Roman annexation of Nabataea early in the first century A.D. They were found as part of an ongoing excavation of homes and tombs ...

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 ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., has acquired for an undisclosed price an over-lifesize Greek cult statue, believed to represent Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Probably dated about 420 … ...

The heads belong to statues previously discovered in the ancient city. Aizanoi Excavation Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Aizanoi, in what’s now western Turkey, have found the ...

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