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Yungang Grottoes reopen No.19 Cave in N China

01:35 The No. 19 Cave is one of the oldest among the Yungang Grottoes in the city of Datong, north China's Shanxi Province. The cave has more than 4,000 Buddhist statue

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Chinese New Year parade was canceled for humans, but not for oxen

03:01 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there’ll be no Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the largest Chinatown in North America. But some artists are making sure the Ye

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Richmond is removing Stonewall Jackson statue

00:42 Richmond mayor Levar Stoney has ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues in the city on Wednesday, crews began removing a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jac

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Terracotta theft: Chinese anger over stolen warrior thumb

Chineseauthoritieshavedemanded"severepunishment"foramanwhoallegedlystolethethumbofaterracottawarriorstatueondisplayintheUS,Chinesestatemediareport.The2,000-year

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27 ancient goddess statues excavated in Egypt

AnEgyptian-Europeanarcheologicalmissionhasdiscoveredacollectionof27statuesofancientEgyptianlionessgoddessSekhmet,authoritiessaidSunday.Thediscoverywasmadenearth

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Trump: Confederate statue removals 'rip apart' American history, culture

U.S.PresidentDonaldTrumponThursdaylamentedtheremovalof“beautifulstatuesandmonuments”commemoratingtheConfederacy,sayingthathewas“sad”toseeAmerica’shistoryandcult

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Scientists crack mystery of the luckless apostles of Paris

Havinglosttheirheads,beenpulledfromtheirplinths,smashedandevenburied,thingsareatlastlookingupforsomeoftheunluckieststatuesinChristendom.Forfivecenturiesthe12apo

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Unlicensed copycat cultural relics violate law

Thousands of forged terracotta warriors were on exhibition in Taihu county, East China's Anhui province, without the consent or authorization of officials overseeing the real ones. Beijing News commented on Saturday:

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Divers find ancient Roman cargo from 1,600-yr old shipwreck in Israel

​Archaeologists in Israel have recovered bronze statues and thousands of coins from a merchant ship that sank off the Mediterranean coast some 1,600 years ago during the late Roman period.

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Ming Dynasty Buddha statues break record at French auction

An Asian collector snapped up three seated Buddha statues from China's Ming Dynasty at a French auction on Saturday with more than 6.29 million euros(nearly $7 million), breaking the auction record of its kind.

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Who covered nude statues in Rome during Iranians' visit?

The cover-up of nude statues at Rome' s Capitoline Museums during a two-day visit by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has turned into a mysterious blame game in Italy.