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A butter lamb has taken center stage on my family’s Easter table for as long as I can remember. Each year at Easter, my ...
Chandigarh: With banned terrorist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) having issued a threat for Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations last ...
Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...
I just spent two weeks exploring Italy with my mom. Two full weeks of historic ruins, marble statues, canals and gelato. I ...
Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...
Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s Berenice ... “For example, a cult statue of a god or goddess with such decoration placed in a temple, would have given the visitor to the temple the ...
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...
Marble sculpture of the Greek god Apollo from the 2nd century AD. Credit: Reuters. For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of ...
For this reason, many statues have been made in her honor throughout the years. This widespread reverence for Aphrodite inspired countless sculptors to capture her beauty in stone and marble, ...
many of the statues that were anointed with perfumes were statues of Roman and Greek gods. In Sicily, for instance, the statue of Artemis was ritualistically anointed with perfume. At Greece’s ...