Is a statue of Christoper Columbus a god? Surely not. And yet. The Jamaican author Michelle Cliff wrote in her 1984 semi-autobiographical novel, “Abeng“, of the half-monsters Columbus believed he ...

Greg Crawley, a British construction worker, accidentally became an archeologist for a day when he discovered an 1,800-year-old statue of a Roman woman mysteriously buried near the Burghley House.

The discovery of perfectly preserved 2,000–year-old bronze statues in sacred thermal springs outside Rome will “rewrite history,” authorities said.

Archaeologists in Cambodia have unearthed a dozen centuries-old sandstone statues in a “remarkable discovery” at the Angkor World Heritage Site near the city of Siem Reap.

World 900-year-old statues — guardians of a palace gate — unearthed in Cambodia. See them By Aspen Pflughoeft. October 30, 2024 9:31 AM.

1,600-year-old statue discovered in Turkey in 2018 was missing its head — until now. Story by Irene Wright • 3mo. The ancient city of Tripolis, Turkey has seen thousands of years of history.

A woman out for an evening stroll along the beach at Pedda Rushikonda on India's eastern coast recently stumbled upon a 700-year-old statue of Vishnu, Hinduism's supreme deity and creator of the ...

Another statue found at the 800-year-old temple. Photo from Phouk Chea / Yi Sotha via APSARA National Authority More statues may be buried farther down in the pit, but archaeologists aren’t sure.

World. Cambodia welcomes the Met’s repatriation of centuries-old statues looted during past turmoil. ... the Uma can be reunified to achieve its full magnificence as one complete statue,” it said.