Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United States on Friday returned to Greece 30 ancient artifacts, including marble statues, armor helmets and breastplates, found to have been illicitly removed from the ...

Getty returned 4 artifacts to Greece after it said they had been smuggled ; ... to keep one of the key items on the list, a limestone and marble statue of Aphrodite, until 2010.

In addition to the ticket, a vast collection of artifacts was discovered, including a figurine of Aphrodite and part of a ...

A 2,500-year-old temple dedicated to Aphrodite has been found aboveground in western Turkey. ... mapping and collecting artifacts encountered, according to the University of Michigan.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think.

Archaeologists uncovered a treasure trove of ancient Egyptian and Greek artifacts. It included gold and silver trinkets, likely used in ritual ceremonies to bless the pharaohs. They were found on ...

Mr. Felch is a co-author of “Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum.” The news that roughly 2,000 objects, dating from antiquity to the 19th century ...

For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In an overarching way, she was the goddess of consensus, as in any interaction between consenting people or groups of ...