Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a sneaky god. “It’s an ...
Double the size of a normal human skull, the ancient marble head was likely part of a larger-than-life statue that loomed over a public space or building. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and ...
Following two decades of setbacks, the much-anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM ... for viewing include a 36-foot-high, 83-ton statue of the pharaoh Ramses II, canopic jars still containing ...
Click or swipe through to see some of those discoveries as they're uncovered. A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2000 years old was found abandoned in a rubbish bag near the ...
He said: “When you look at how successful Ayrshire has been in terms of tourism , they have drawn a lot of money from Burns when really he spent such a small part of his life here. “It is not like he ...
Bert Smith, a professor of classical archaeology at Oxford University and at Bilkent University in Turkey, said that the statue appeared to be a small-scale figure of a goddess. “The small size ...
A Roman statue of the Greek goddess Athena reemerged in Chicago after almost three ... The Athena is posed extending her hand, as if proffering a small owl, a symbol of her divine wisdom, to the ...
The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...