Ancient Greek engineer and master of mechanics Philo of Byzantium was the creator of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ...

DDN_B_40_S1 is a larger-than-life stylized statue of a man carved out of sandstone; factoring in the missing head and feet, it would have been around 9 feet tall (2.7 meters). Bare-chested and ...

It will be a display of 13 hyper-realistic bronze statues from the late American artist Seward Johnson. The sculptures will ...

A medallion of General Franco in Salamanca, Spain. Erected in 1879, the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney’s Hyde Park bears an inscription that claims Cook “discovered” Australia. But those ...

What do statues really represent? Do they teach history, honor history or be history themselves? Better yet, can they withstand the test of time? The standards should be high, and that goes for ...

This photo taken on Sept. 22, 2024 shows kids running in the Dario Hotel in Granada, Nicaragua. Granada, located on the shores of the Nicaragua Lake, is the first city established by the Spanish ...

A 73-meter Kannon statue overlooks the hot-spring resort city of Kaga in Ishikawa Prefecture. The reinforced concrete structure, named Kaga Dai-Kannon, was built in 1987 by a local real estate ...

Protesters in Bristol pull down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston When anti-racism protesters in England pulled down the statue of a 17th Century slave trader and promptly dumped it in the ...

There are relatively few statues of real women across the UK – but that’s slowly beginning to change. Here, we take a look at some of the best statues celebrating female trailblazers from history.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god. The statue stands about 6 feet 8 inches tall, and the ...