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More than 200 Sri Lankan Christians were killed for their beliefs six years ago. Their deaths beckon us to evaluate how we live.
An ancient Buddha statue from the early Goryeo dynasty was recently discovered at an archaeological site in North Korea. The Goryeo study saw the flourishing of Buddhist art and architecture ...
A 45-foot statue of a nude woman is the newest — and tallest — resident of San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza. The artwork, titled "R-Evolution," was unveiled with music, lights and ...
Two RAF engineers who broke a Paddington Bear statue in half and then stole it were "the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for", a judge has said. Daniel Heath and William Lawrence ...
A famous Dublin statue of a mythical fishmonger should be protected from the groping hands of tourists and passersby, says a young woman campaigning to protect her. Tilly Cripwell is in her final ...
A controversial statue carved by the sculptor Eric Gill has been restored and has been unveiled outside the BBC's London headquarters. The Grade II*-listed statue was damaged in 2022 and 2023 ...
A stinky-handed vandal smeared feces on a Wayne Gretzky statue in Canada after the hockey great garnered ire for maintaining his close friendship with the country’s newest enemy, President Trump.
City-funded programs will no longer be allowed to distribute supplies used for drug consumption unless individuals receive ...
Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues depicting a man and a woman, Ancient Origins reported. The statues were ...
In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.
A Queens woman tossed a blood-red liquid on a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt during an anti-Israel protest outside a Long Island legislative building over the weekend, cops and ...
By Michael Levenson It was shortly after 2 a.m. on March 2, the police said, when two members of the British Royal Air Force approached a statue of Paddington Bear, sitting placidly on a park ...