When the Getty bought the Aphrodite for $18 million in 1988, the statue’s importance outweighed the signs of its illicit origins. “The proposed statue of Aphrodite would not only become the ...

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 ...

You can reach her at [email protected]. A headless statue of Aphrodite was discovered during subway work in the Greek port city of Thessaloniki, which have been ongoing amid metro ...

Today, the Getty has conceded doubts about the statue’s origins. The Aphrodite, which once promised to set the Getty’s collection apart, has become an icon of the museum’s troubled past.

Hoff said Aphrodite's head is the first fragment of a monumental statue they have found at Antiochia ad Cragum over eight years of digging. "We have niches where statues once were. We just didn't ...

Archaeologists recently discovered Roman-era statue heads of Aphrodite and Dionysus in Turkey, Live Science reported. According to the outlet, the exciting discovery was made during a dig in the ...

The woman in the statue may be a representation of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. She is clothed and has her foot on the back of a turtle reminiscent of “Aphrodite Ourania” in the Louvre.

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.