An archaeological dig on the island of Paros, renowned for its marble, has discovered an ancient Greek sculpture workshop.

Perhaps the most iconic Greek artform today, life-sized marble statues began to appear in Greece around the early 6 th ...

Aphrodite’s story, sung by ancient Greek poets and set down in some of ... the mixing and mingling of bodies. Statues and figurines like this one represent an increase in goddess cults in ...

Greece's Ministry of Culture announced that an ancient sculpture workshop was discovered during excavations on the island of ...

That is a sculpture made by the artist Praxiteles around 330 BCE—a work now usually known as the “Aphrodite of Knidos,” after the Greek town on the west coast of modern Turkey that was its ...

are derived from Aphrodite’s name, which itself comes from the Greek word for foam: “aphros.” Both heads reflect similar stylistic qualities to the Hermes statue, and to other pieces of the ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...