Furthermore, quartz, feldspars, kaolin, emery ... This was when the Parthenon and the other magnificent structures and statues were erected. During 483 BC, a rich new deposit was discovered—the ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues depicting a man and a woman, Ancient Origins reported. The statues were ...

William Carney. That link once directed readers to a biography about the Medal of Honor winner who inspired Denzel Washington’s character in the 1989 movie “Glory.” It now leads to a 404 ...

Beatrix Potter's popular character Peter Rabbit has been chosen as the design for an art trail's money-raising statues. Forty individually decorated statues of the sketchbook rabbit will be dotted ...

Most obviously, the gold leaf had washed off the 350-year-old statues, leaving a behind dull ... Apollo is fully restored in all its cascading glory,” Versailles said in a statement.

It doesn’t take long for those six strings to ring out, as opener “It’s a Mirror” kicks off with a crunchy riff and grows into a linear, R.E.M.-coded head-banger. While Mills has been ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city, which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted ...

It also calls on the Secretary of the Interior to restore public monuments, statues and other markers that have been removed or changed since 2020. But it's unclear how many sites — and which ...

The Morning Glory spillway — dubbed by locals as the "Glory Hole spillway" — at Lake Berryessa in Napa, Calif., is active for the first time since 2019, Jennifer Onufer of the Bureau of ...

The enormous 'glory hole' in Napa County's Lake Berryessa is visible for the first time since 2019. When the lake's water level rises above 440 feet, this 72-foot wide circular drain prevents ...