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 2,400-year-old statue of a woman believed to be Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. The statue, which stands seven-and-a-half-feet tall and weighs more than half a ton, had reigned since 1988 ...

One of the sculptures is a striking 2-metre-high statue of the goddess of love, Aphrodite, sitting on a base depicting the ...

Statue fragments of other deities including ... During excavations, two marble heads, believed to belong to Aphrodite ...