No mythological figure has endured in the cultural imagination quite so successfully as Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, known to the Greeks as Aphrodite. The daughter of Zeus and ...

The ancient city of Aphrodisias – among the most celebrated archaeological sites dedicated to Aphrodite, the goddess of love ...

Volunteers recently unearthed an ancient depiction of a Roman goddess while digging near a historic British landmark. The sandstone carving was found at Vindolanda, a fort in Northumberland, near ...

The birth of Aphrodite Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, became Venus in the Roman pantheon. This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the ...

Amateur archaeologists uncovered a sandstone relief of the Roman goddess of victory in Northumberland. The find occurred in a pile of rubble at the famed Roman fort Vindolanda. Dated to about 213 ...