The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However, the institute’s announcement failed to mention the statue had once ...

Have you ever seen a bunch of coins on a headstone and wondered why they were there? They weren’t placed there by ...

A Paddington statue that was ripped from a bench by two RAF engineers is to be reinstalled. The homage to the famous bear has been repaired and repainted and will be unveiled during a ceremony in ...

Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Exécutée à Paris par le sculpteur Bartholdi avec la collaboration de Gustave Eiffel pour la charpente métallique, la statue colossale de la ...

Right, a ten-foot-tall statue of the Buddha looms inside Shitthaung ... Muslim-inspired titles such as “shah,” and they stamped coins with Arabic and Bengali inscriptions, suggesting a close ...

The sudden disappearance of these once potent symbols of Nepali nationalism troubles some. But for most Nepalis, the vanishing act of coins of small denominations is a sober reminder of how little ...

Padmanabhaswami temple in Thiruvananthapuram district is a famous Vishnu temple which gained national attention after a huge amount of gold including gold thrones, crowns, coins, statues and ornaments ...

Using old photographs to capture a likeness, the statues and busts are made of wood or fibreglass, coloured with paint and completed with realistic glass eyes. In Ivy´s case, they plan to finish the ...