Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities conservation lab. The 7 1/2 -foot figure had a placid marble face and delicately carved limestone gown. It was thought to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.

On Tuesday, the archaeological museum in Aidone, Sicily, will inaugurate the exhibit of a long-lost but now hard-won antiquity — a stone Aphrodite that was illegally excavated from the region 30 ...

The next time you're strolling along Tampa's Riverwalk, look up at the Tampa Museum of Art and see a monumental sculpture of the goddess of love, Aphrodite, gazing and gesturing out over the ...

Pieces coming from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston include a pair of fertility statuettes that are at least 5,000 years old, vases depicting sacrifices to Aphrodite, and the famed “Bartlett Head ...

associate curator of Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum. "The piece makes you think a little bit." This Isis-Aphrodite is made out of terra-cotta coated with a white clay slip and decorated ...

British Museum/Scala, Florence Although the Greeks asserted that Aphrodite’s name derived from the Greek for “foam-born” (aphros is Greek for “sea foam”), it seems far more likely her ...

A set of Greek vases which form part of the National Museum of Archaeology’s reserve collection will be on display at the museum as part of an exhibition called From Aphrodite to Eros: Mythology ...