Karen LaMonte’s sculptures explore ideas around femininity, resilience, and conventions of beauty throughout history.

What if I told you the Statue of Liberty was built to imitate a wonder of the ancient world? The colossus is the wonder of the ancient world that we know the least about. We don’t know where it ...

The gilt bronze statue Bodhisattva – a female goddess of mercy – is depicted in a sitting position and measures about 50cm (20 inches) in height. It has been designated a cultural asset of the ...

Meanwhile, another female avatar for the nation was capturing the imaginations of millions of new immigrants from Italy, Poland and Russia: the Statue of Liberty, dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886.

October 28, 1886(WOMENSENEWS)–On October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty is unveiled. The city’s first ticker-tape parade heralds the ceremony in New York harbor. What will become the female ...

Archaeology & History Huge! A Colossal Statue of Ancient Greece That Lives on in Legend Long destroyed, the Colossus of Rhodes was a World Wonder that survives in the cultural imagination ...

The Colossus, Chares’s audacious “second sun,” was not destined to last for centuries: An earthquake destroyed it and parts of the city of Rhodes in 226 or 225 B.C., little more than half a ...

DENIZLI, Türkiye Archaeologists discovered a 2100-year-old statue head attributed to Hygieia, also known as the goddess of health, in southwestern Türkiye’s ancient city of Laodikeia.

Although the Colossus is not the largest statue ever built - the bronze Colossus of Nero was almost 100ft tall - "it is the largest among those preserved," Parisi Presicce said.