When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Becker County gained some unusual residents this year, and one of them happens to be 36 feet tall. "This community is kind of a hidden gem. There is a lot here," said Amy ...

rather than mythical gods. It’s a notable glimpse into the society’s power dynamics and its burial rituals. Archaeologists found the statues at the top of a huge mausoleum featuring and entry ...

Critics say the statues perpetuate the "Lost Cause" mythology that romanticizes slavery and promotes the honor of the Confederate cause. Taking down those memorials is seen as one way of ...

This truly colossal statue and its companion are all that ... to deem them the Oracle of Memnon (an Ethiopian king in Greek mythology), to which they and later the Romans made pilgrimages.

The Statue of Union towers over the flat urban landscape of Sugar Land. At 90 feet tall and 90 tons, the bronze monument to Lord Hanuman is the third-tallest statue in the U.S., and the tallest of the ...