Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. Experts think ...

The pair, possibly husband and wife, stand within a niche on the boundary wall of a monumental ancient tomb ... As well as the newly announced statues, in 2021, the team unearthed the tomb ...

Some two to three dozen people gather to dedicate a new monument—a bronze statue of a boy standing ... common Ukrainian phrase borrowed from ancient Sparta for those who have fallen in battle.

Tension prevailed in Jaipur’s Pratap Nagar in Rajasthan after a statue of Veer Tejaji Maharaj was allegedly vandalised by unidentified miscreants at a temple on Tonk Road. Following the incident, the ...

The Agoge prepared Spartan boys for a life of military service. Credit: Jona Lendering / Wikimedia Commons CC0 Ancient Sparta has been known for centuries around the world for its meticulous and harsh ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ... that once hung on an ancient wooden structure nearby ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient ... city of Sparta, just a 10-minute drive from Euphoria; there I stared at excavated funeral urns, statues ...