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The Most Iconic Tourist Attractions That Don't Exist Anymore
Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no ...
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Billionaire wants to build statue of Virgin Mary taller than Christ the Redeemer
An iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil could soon be dwarfed by a new statue of Jesus’s mother. A Polish billionaire and his wife have announced plans to build a statue of the Virgin ...
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The fall of symbols: Toppling Hafez al-Assad’s largest statue in Syria
At the heart of Hafez al-Assad’s rise to power was Mohamed Deeb Daboul (known as Abu Saleem), a close confidant and office secretary of the late Syrian president since the late 1960s. Daboul was born ...
The Independent21d
2,000-year-old statue found in rubbish bag in Greece
A more than 2,000-year-old marble statue of a woman has been found discarded in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. A local resident stumbled upon the 31-inch statue next to a bin in Neoi ...
BBC22d
Shades, sparks and snow: Africa's top shots
MARCO LONGARI / AFP People are gathered there on Saturday for the blessing of the statue and to perform ... following in the footsteps of Jesus. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP On Wednesday, men who have ...
The Washington Post23d
Man finds 2,000-year-old Greek statue dumped near trash cans
An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found dumped near a cluster of garbage bins in Greece, kicking off a police investigation into potential illegal ...
USA Today23d
2,000-year-old headless statue found in Greece near trash cans, police now investigating
A 32-year-old Greek national found the statue on Jan. 18 in a black bag near the trash bins. The statue, believed to be from the Hellenistic period, is currently being held by authorities for ...
Associated Press23d
A 2,000-year-old statue is found abandoned in a garbage bag in Greece
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This undated handout photo provided by the Greek Police and released on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 shows a ...
Yahoo23d
A 2,000-year-old statue is found abandoned in a garbage bag in Greece
This undated handout photo provided by the Greek Police and released on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 shows a marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old which was found abandoned ...
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2,000-year-old Greek statue found abandoned in garbage bag
A marble statue of a woman, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the 80 ...
CBS News23d
2,000-year-old statue found dumped near garbage cans in Greece
Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...