It stands 6.4 feet tall, nearly twenty-three hundred years old, and has one detail that makes it special among the surviving bronze sculptures of ancient Greece, alongside the Charioteer of Delphi and the Riace bronzes: like them, the Antikythera Ephebe still has its original eyes, made of glass paste, and those eyes are the reason […]

The Huashan rock paintings, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, stretch over 260 kilometers along the Zuojiang River valley, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China. More than 80 sites with human figures, animals, and bronze objects decorate cliffs that rise dozens of meters above the water. Created at least 2000 […]