Throughout Greek antiquity, Aphrodite was worshiped as the goddess of love and beauty, pleasure and fertility. Sculptors immortalized her beguiling sensuality in marble statues found on Mount Olympus.

Before kings and empires, there were gods who ruled from the clouds — immortal, powerful, and often dangerously human. On ...

For those who think that ancient Greece was all philosophy and marathons, a scintillating exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston proves otherwise. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Aphrodite and ...

Statuette of Aphrodite emerging from the sea, 1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Frank B. Bemis Fund Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 1st century B.C. Bathing vessel ...

AMMAN — New archaeological discoveries in Jerash have been described as “priceless” by historians and archaeologists, among them was an almost-whole sculpture of the Greek goddess of love and beauty ...

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After years of meticulous work, a French archaeological team that has been excavating the eastern Roman baths in Jerash, unearthed several intact sculptures from the Graeco-Roman period. An event to ...