6 Ways to Burn Your Belly Fat Fast. Fashion, Hair & Beauty, Sex and Relationships :: Cosmopolitan UK. 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. The statue is thought to be from the Archaic Greek period, but the trouble is the Getty kouros has a few qualities that make confirming its authenticity difficult.
Scholars, art dealers and scientists have all taken a crack at the mystery. Until the sculpture's authenticity is confirmed, the display notes for the Getty kouros remark that the sculpture may date back to 530 B.C., or it may be a modern forgery dating only back to about 1980. HowStuffWorks "Learn how Everything Works!". Natural health news.