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?

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.

Archaeologists in France have discovered a trove of up to 1,800-year-old artifacts — including statuettes of the goddess Venus, a potter's kiln, coins and clothing pins — in a rare location: a Roman ...