Its purpose is to show not only how artists have viewed the female body from the Renaissance to the present but also to explain how this body has been used to express both emotion and the attitudes of ...

Gyms (gymnasiums) in Ancient Greece were vibrant communal hubs where elite men forged identities through exercise and philosophical debates.

A statue transported from the Louvre lies on her side, the sheets pulled away to reveal her elegant curves. Only when you ...

Evolutionary biology suggests the human penis became prominent because it mattered socially – but our cultural history shows ...

The sweat of ancient Greek and Roman athletes was a prized commodity believed to confer special health benefits.

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed ...