LAS CRUCES — For decades, a hand-carved statue depicting an eagle standing 6 feet high has held its place near a bus stop on Missouri Avenue.

Archaeologists think that the figures were Ethiopian, and could have been carved in Africa or in Israel by African migrants who had converted to ... A Crew Found a Gold Treasure Under a Buddha Statue; ...

The Ethiopian garden is growing, with two significant structures still being planned and needing funding. The first is an Axum stele silhouette, a pre-Christian era obelisk-like monument from ...

It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago ...

Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. Experts think the figures are a funerary ...

Ethiopia Emperor’s Statue. A statue of Ethiopia’s last Emperor, Haile Selassie, after its unveiling at the African Union in Addis Ababa, Feb. 10.

The carved statue, known as Monument 9, measures 1.8 metres tall, 1.5 metres wide and weighs about one tonne, Mexico’s National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH) said in a statement.

The fire – caused by the nearby Rano Raraku volcano – started Monday and razed more than 100 hectares of the island, damaging its famous stone-carved statues known as ‘Moai’ which were ...

A MYSTERIOUS message carved into a statue forged by King Midas has been read for the first time in more than two millennia. A historian managed to decipher it during a visit to what today is southe… ...

The box score is carved into the marble base of the 19-foot bronze statue, which depicts Bryant in his postgame celebration of the second highest-scoring game in NBA history.