On Tuesday, the archaeological museum in Aidone, Sicily, will inaugurate the exhibit of a long-lost but now hard-won antiquity — a stone Aphrodite that was illegally excavated from the region 30 years ...

A marble and limestone statue thought to be the Greek goddess Aphrodite is the most famous antiquity at the J. Paul Getty Museum. At $18 million, it's also the most expensive. But today's Los Angeles ...

Headed home in 2010: Cult Statue of a Goddess, perhaps Aphrodite ..., 425 - 400 B.C. Off to Italy this year: Sculptural Group (Table Support) of Two Griffins Attacking a Fallen Doe, about 325 - 300 ...

A marble sculpture from the 4th century B.C. shows winged griffins attacking a fallen doe. It was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1985. A decade later, authorities seized Polaroid photos from the ...