Ancient Artistry Aficionado Gifts

'Okay, how about THAT shade of mud?'

"Maybe you could make the hunter more likable."

Bacchus.

A caveman paints from life

Anthropologists discover the earliest known depiction of Jazz Hands.

Repurposing the aqueducts of Ancient Rome.

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

This side is the gag reel.

"How long before the clinical trials are over?"

Tragedy, Comedy & Selfie.

"A wise choice sir! Aah. . . Da Vinci - a genius of the Renaissance and a man who changed the face of art forever! Would you like that as a bookmark, a pencil sharpener or a fridge magnet. . . ?"

I'm not sure which, but he's just invented either writing or vandalism. (Published originally on Feb. 11, 2011.)

"Did Melina Mercouri ever get those marbles back to Greece?"

"Take that mammoth back. It's not 'wooly' enough."

'Finish your homework first, Og... then you can watch the wall.'

Diego Velasquez

Three street vendors sit side by side selling their art; two of the vendors are selling normal paintings while the third is a Neanderthal selling cave paintings.

Goddess

The mysterious ancient stone figures of Keister Island.

Dog and Human Archaeologists

Goddess of Fertility garden feature

Infographics: the early years.

'What really annoys me is that they're not even my demons - they're Goya's and Hieronymus Bosch's and Brueghel's.'

"It's the usual promise to cut taxes"

"The subaqueous qualities of the biomorphic forms spacially undermine the larger metaphorical resonance of the mark-making."

Thinker, but not too deep: 'I wonder what's on TV tonight?'

"You don't look a day over 30,000."

Cave Paintings Audio Guide

Pompeii restoration project.

This action stuff is okay, but try a romance or comedy next time.

We speak hieroglyphics here.

"I'm really gonna miss Rome."

Mammoth Posing

"It would appear they worshipped the almighty dollar."

'What's on the other side?...'