On this day in 1820, the Venus de Milo was discovered by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas inside the city ruins of Milos, an island in the Aegean sea between Crete and Greece. One of the most famous ...

For much of the world, the mystery of the Venus de Milo lies in its missing arms. But there’s much more to this iconic statue than a couple of absent appendages. It’s popularly believed that this ...

MORE than half a century has elapsed since the now famous statue was found buried under nameless ruins at Milo, anciently called Melos,—a poor little island of the Grecian Archipelago, which traded ...