LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 11 (UPI) --A priceless 300-year-old statue in Lisbon's National Museum of Ancient Art shattered after it was knocked over by a tourist trying to snap a selfie. Museum ...

A Roman statue dating back almost 2,000 years has ... carried out by Italian dealers in antiquities during the late 18th century when selling items to aristocrats traveling in Italy.

where the mummy (from inside the Buddha statue) was on exhibit last year. You may like 18th-century monk's anus was stuffed with wood chips and fabric to mummify him, researchers discover Rare ...

Coventry Charterhouse has welcomed back historic statues with 3D printing. The historic house opened earlier this month and ...

White statues of the classical world also fit ideals of the 18th-century Enlightenment period, such as purity and clarity. The lack of color also reduced the sculptures' sensuality and set them ...

The family of the 18th century Tory politician Henry Dundas are ... seamen and marines and erected in 1821, with the statue placed on top in 1827. 'In 2020 this was dedicated to the memory of ...

But his one-of-a-kind statue in Waterford's Washington Park is 100 this year. And the Fort LeBoeuf Historical Society is celebrating. Special events this weekend will include an 18th-century ...

A grateful Louis XVI had earlier erected a statue of a heroic Buffon in the ... Agostini/Getty Images In two aspects, at least, this 18th-century scientific clash rhymes with our times.