The elegantly carved feline figures from the third century B.C., unearthed by the British in northern India, embody both ...

What? The Lion of Venice, an ancient bronze statue of a winged lion which can be seen by countless tourists on a massive plinth of Egyptian granite in the Piazza San Marco. Lions have wings?

However, the discovery of this ancient statue—and exquisite preservation—was far from certain when the statue was first discovered lying face down in January 2024. “One problem with ...

A 1,700-year-old marble statue of Hercules has been unearthed at the mediaeval site of Montaione in Tuscany. Discovered by an ...

Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and first African to lead the global body. The griffin, a mythical creature with the ...

Despite no cranium on the Greek hero, the statue included details from Hercules’ mythic 12 labors, including the skin of the ...