A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

He was a self-made man in more than one sense, since, working up from poverty, carving statues for 60 years, he resembled in his last years one of his own works in stone. His greatest works ...

Key exhibits include a relief of Athena Nike, several carved statues from Erechtheion, the head of a statue of Alexander the Great and a gallery with various Parthenon artifacts. Many previous ...