6 Ways to Burn Your Belly Fat Fast. Fashion, Hair & Beauty, Sex and Relationships. Better information. Better health. 10 Famous Fake Antiques and the Suckers Who Bought Them" A kouros is a statue of a naked youth; this boy is 6.7 feet (2 meters) tall, stands with his arms at his sides, his left foot forward, and he is looking straight ahead.
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., first laid eyes on a now controversial Greek kouros in the 1980s, and is rumored to have paid as much as $12 million for what may or may not be a fake [source: Muchnic]. The museum bought the statue in 1985 from a Basel art dealer after testing and studying the piece for two years. HowStuffWorks "Learn how Everything Works!". Natural health news.