I had traveled more than 6,000 miles to ask Canavesi about one of the world’s most contested pieces of ancient art: a 2,400-year-old statue of a woman believed to be Aphrodite, the Greek goddess ...

immortalized by works such as Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos or the Venus de Milo. That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color ...

Perfumes had captivated the ancient Greeks and through many sources, we can still venture through the world of perfumes in ...

the messenger of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology. Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and ...

Around 2000 replicas of Greek and Roman sculptures ... The Gallery of Plaster Casts of Ancient Art makes lost art visible to everyone. Aphrodite, Zeus, Julius Caesar, the Parthenon model or ...