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 ...
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 ...