In the center of the ancient city of Madurai ... Thousands of vibrantly painted stone statues depicting animals, gods, and demons line the walls of the temple’s 14 towers, the tallest of which ...

Photo from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports Entering the temple, ancient worshipers passed under several sets of watchful marble eyes. The stone statues once gazed across a bustling ...

Archaeologists unearthed dozens of ancient stone artifacts while cleaning ... Ta Prohm, the 800-year-old temple where the statues were found, was also built during this time and is part of the ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect ... as scientists discover stone tablet in Georgia with ‘ancient ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered broken statues of ancient royalty at a sun temple in Heliopolis, an archaeological site that was once a major city near what is now Cairo. The stone-carved ...

Archaeologists unearthed a Sphinx-like statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt ... more studies on the markings on the stone slab, which could reveal more ...

UISEONG, South Korea, March 25 (Yonhap) -- An ancient temple in the southeastern ... Authorities confirmed that a stone Buddha statue and other cultural treasures had been moved to safe locations ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome ... to resemble a real god or goddess.” Drawing on ...