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 ...

For example, the second chapter is told from the perspective of an 18th century French chair — a fauteuil made for European royalty. "To me it looks different than the others," Coulson says.

Restorers of an 18th-century statue of Jesus Christ in Spain have found a handwritten note hidden up his bum. The message, written carefully in calligraphy and dating back to 1777, had been ...

Here’s how it works. An 18th-century wooden statue of Jesus harbored a surprise —time capsule letters hidden in the buttocks, researchers reported. The work of art, called "Cristo del Miserere ...

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 ...

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.