A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

In the ancient era, Venus Victrix, who borrowed her ties to military might from Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of war and sexual love, was often shown in full armor. Roman generals “were known ...

Old Ring Featuring 'Venus the Victorious' Found on Road in France, May Have Belonged to a Traveler Speculations about an ...

Venus was believed ... In Egypt, Isis was a goddess of fertility; she was also a mother and a symbol of death and rebirth. She therefore combined the duties of several Roman goddesses, including ...

An 1,800-year-old gold ring with a carving depicting Venus, a Roman goddess associated with victory, has been discovered in Brittany. Archaeologists in France have discovered an 1,800-year-old ...

Archaeologists have discovered two statue fragments of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, while excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeiopolis in Kastamonu's Taskopru district of Türkiye.

Around the second or third century C.E., a gold ring bearing the likeness of the Roman goddess Venus was lost on a road in ...