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Turkish city asks Louvre to return statues: report
İzmir :: Turkey | about 12 hours ago
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The Turkish city of Izmir has asked Paris's Louvre museum to return two statues of Greek gods Zeus and Apollo, a newspaper reported Monday. In a letter to the management of the French museum, mayor of the port city Aziz Kocaoglu demanded the return of...
Tags: Louvre, Turkey, İzmir, Aziz Kocaoￄﾟlu, Apollo, Statue, Smyrna, ￄﾰzmir
Museum plans a ‘sculpture garden’
Chennai :: India | 1 day ago
Credibility The Government Museum functioning at the historic Rani Mangammal Durbar Hall in the Town Hall complex has plans to establish a ‘sculpture garden’ to showcase its rich repertoire of statues of historic and religious significance. A proposal submitted by...
Tags: sculpture garden, India, Chennai, Tamil people, Telugu people, Year of birth missing, Statue, Durbar Hall, Hospitality Recreation, Mangammal, Queens regnant, Regents
Roman artifacts dating back to Augustus found near Giessen
Discovery On is reporting that archaeologist pulled a life-sized head of a horse and a shoe of the emperor Augustus from a stream in what was once the Roman outpost Germania Magna, near modern day Giessen. Specialists there have unearthed numerous...
World's largest Chairman Mao statue under construction
As China marches toward the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China this October, the number of tributes to Mao Zedong keep cropping up. In the chairman’s home province of Hunan, the world’s largest statue...
Tags: Worlds, largest, Chairman, Mao, statue, construction, China
Swedish Church unveils unique Jesus Statue on Easter
Swedish Church celebrates Easter by unveiling a life size statue of Jesus Christ on mass Sunday. The Statue is made from Lego bricks donated by 30,000 churchgoers. Jesus Christ statue depicts the Lords resurrection. The Statue looks magnificent, full...
Statues that make women pregnant:
Starting a family might be a little easier with a trip to Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum that opened in Myrtle Beach on Thursday. The museum opens a month-long display of its fertility statues. The 5-foot tall wooden statues were found in Ivory...
Kate Moss Re-Created in Gold as Modern Aphrodite
Here continues the British obsession with Kate Moss: the British Museum has recreated her life-size likeness as the modern day Aphrodite carved out of gold with her legs tucked behind her head. The statue is made of 18 carat gold and finds its home in...
Kate Moss statue 'largest since ancient Egypt'
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility The British Museum plans to display a statue of supermodel Kate Moss that it bills as the largest gold statue built since ancient Egypt. The statue of Kate Moss will be displayed in the British Museum in a gallery holding anicent Greek sculpture.
Tags: Kate Moss, statue, gold, model, Kate Moss Immortalized, gold statue, solid gold, ancient egypt, Egypt, Marc Quinn
This was the dramatic scene as the world's largest statue of Jesus was hit by lightning.
This was the dramatic scene as the world's largest statue of Jesus was hit by lightning. The bolt parted the thunderclouds over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to strike Christ the Redeemer. The statue is 130ft tall, is made of 700 tons of reinforced concrete...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Statue
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