Developers in Gloucestershire, England, recently received a sign of the goddess of love’s favor, unearthing a Roman-era statuette believed to depict Venus at the site of a new construction project.

It’s Valentine’s Day today. What more appropriate time could we have for the planet that represents the goddess of love to shine at its stunning brightest in the west for several hours after sunset?

While the planet Venus is turning heads towards the stars with its celestial transit, the Roman goddess after which it was named has shaped culture as early as 1600 BCE. As the goddess of love, beauty ...

Archaeologists have found a trove of artifacts, including two statues of the goddess Venus, in a Roman-era quarry-turned-trash-dump. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

Out of the trash and into the museum. That’s the likely outcome for a Roman-era Venus statuette excavated in February from a former trash heap in Brittany, northwestern France. The well-preserved four ...

GLOUCESTER, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that an excavation ahead of a construction project in the center of southwestern England’s city of Gloucester has uncovered an 1,800-year-old figurine thought to ...

This gold ring features an engraving of Venus Victrix, or Venus the Victorious, a Romanized aspect of the goddess associated with imperial power and romantic ...