A new Vatican-commissioned sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz titled “Be Welcoming” was installed in St. Peter’s ...

Archeological work at Ramses II's mortuary, known as the Ramesseum, has uncovered a school, stone workshops, and storage ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Wildfires in South Korea destroyed nearly half of ...

The 1,300-year-old Gounsa temple in Uiseong County, a major Buddhist landmark, was among the dozens of buildings that have burned to the ground with its ceremonial bell the only piece appearing ...

The remarkable preservation of this ancient temple is partly due to its continuous and uninterrupted use, as each generation of worshippers has maintained what they considered a sacred space. The ...

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 ...

Auburn Street as it changed hands multiple times since. But the current iteration, Luxor Café, seems to have staying power. Walking through its doors, one feels transported to Egypt, from the ...

Two RAF engineers who broke a Paddington statue have been told by a judge they are the "antithesis" of everything the bear stands for. Daniel Heath and William Lawrence, both 22 and based at RAF ...

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 ...

Although they left no written records, the Tumaco-Tolita (also spelled Tumaco-La Tolita) people created this gold statue, a rare example of the art form in the ancient Americas. The standing ...

News outlets have been abuzz lately about a certain Hindu temple located along Jalan Masjid India. Last Thursday (20 March), Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and the government announced its plans to ...