Ever wonder why statues of Greek men are always sporting miniature tinklers? “They have small to very small penises, compared to the average of humanity,” notes art historian Andrew Lear, a specialist ...

The Dallas Museum of Art recently opened a show titled, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece in Dallas, Texas. A model of Olympia is on display at the DMA on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The Dallas Museum ...

Greek statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to jump-off-the-stage Hellenism We trace the steady evolution of Greek art through its statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to ...

The sandal-clad feet of a caryatid inside the tomb at Amphipolis. Let these ancient statues be an inspiration to tall girls who want to wear heels: A pair of caryatids revealed in a tomb in Greece ...

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless eyes. That's just how Ancient Greek sculpture was, right? Nope ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the expertly crafted robes of two female stone statues standing guard at the entrance of a huge Macedonian tomb, dating back to the era of Alexander the Great,under ...