The Monuments Men and Women Foundation is on the hunt to recover stolen masterpieces—and they say this could be our best ...

National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

Claude, a rare albino alligator who lived at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, died this week. Officials ...

Greece, fifth century b.c. To accommodate the sculpture, Phidias raised the height of the cella. He also installed a large rectangular pool filled with olive oil in front of the statue. Since the ...

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally... A 6th-century Byzantine bucket, an ancient Egyptian royal tomb and a sanctuary dedicated to the ...

The task of relocating Marcus Whitman’s statue in the Washington state Capitol is becoming a chore. Whitman was a doctor and missionary in the 1800s. His role in the displacement of Native Americans ...

MÜNSTER, GERMANY—EKathimerini reports that a woman handed over a fragment of an Ionic column capital to the University of Münster for repatriation to Greece. The woman said she had taken the carved ...

The statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and arguably the most famous statue of its day. Once built as a shrine to honor the Greek god Zeus, this statue ...

WASHINGTON — The White House this week added a large George Washington statue to the Rose Garden at the specific request of President Donald Trump, according to a federal official and one White House ...

Not everyone loves the new work in Brownsville, Tenn., but sponsors say they choose to see the bright side of the passionate responses. By Victor Mather Pity the sculptor. Once upon a time, artists ...

Counted among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia left an unforgettable impression on everyone who saw it. Completed in 466 B.C.E. after eight years of construction, ...