For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In politics, business and war, she embodied ...

Although the original temple of Aphrodite, which dates to the Bronze ... and ruins of religious devotion in the region attest to Cyprus’ sacred and humbling religious roots,” Nicolaou said.

As early as 615BC, Aphrodite had a small temple on the site ... Copper ore is named for Cyprus (Kypros), the island’s most famous export. Kyprian Aphrodite was a local Cypriote goddess who ...

Julius Caesar erected a monumental temple to the goddess right in ... On the southwest coastline of Cyprus (called Aphrodite’s Isle) during the wintertime, storm waves hit the dramatic coast ...

End of 5th century B.C.E.-early 4th century B.C.E., probably from Cyprus. Photo by Christoph Gerigk ... collapse of huge stone blocks from the temple of Amun, an important site for Pharaonic ...

Cyprus, however, like Greece ... Our history is kaleidoscopic: a church built on the foundation of a temple to Aphrodite; a mosque that takes the form of a French Gothic church; a museum that ...