Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo. The site, known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is located in a remote valley in ...

In 1792, the Welsh bard Edward Williams – using his bardic name of Iolo Morganwg – stood at the summit and proclaimed that ...

Archaeologists in Thailand uncovered 33 ancient gold, silver, and bronze treasures beneath a 1,300-year-old reclining Buddha statue ... the Buddha’s reclining head has lead experts to believe ...

and the head and body are more proportional to one another, said Dr. Aaron Evans, an independent researcher and an expert on Cranchiidae, or the glass squid family to which the colossal squid belongs.

An Irish hip-hop band has declared “every colony can fall” after a fan gifted them the severed head of a King George V statue at their Melbourne gig on Friday. Belfast band Kneecap were ...

A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once ... as a man and a young girl pose while standing on the head of the statue. The statue was toppled back in December soon after Bashar al-Assad ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church says a crown worth tens of thousands of dollars was stolen from the head ... the statue remained. The crown is made of gold ...

A version of artist Leslie Fry's five-foot-long bronze "Colossal AcornHead ... The size of the sculpture and the use of bronze, however, required a complicated process and additional work, Fry ...

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, the colossal gold-and-ivory sculpture of Athens’s patron goddess was erected in the mid-fifth century B.C. in the Parthenon. A gold helmet crowned her head.

More than a millennium after it was made, the colossal statue is a proud ... and 440 kilograms of gold, and casting the statue took nine years to complete. At the time, Japan hardly mined any ...

The ruins of an ancient Greek monument — filled with gold ... statue of a male figure Photo from the Greek Ministry of Culture Part of a marble lion statue Photo from the Greek Ministry of ...