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This is one of the best preserved and oldest large Egyptian statues. A European-Egyptian team discovered the 12-ft-tall (3.6-m-tall) quartzite representation of the powerful Egyptian queen at the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III on Luxor's West Bank. The statue was joined to the broken-off leg of a much larger c... |
1 April 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Since antiquity, people have built statues to the animals. This was done for various religious or cultural reasons. For example, the animal could have represented the image of a god or was linked to local myths and legends, like the famous Roman statue of the she-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. ... |
27 October 2007
05:17 GMT |
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Megalomaniacs have lived among us ever since antiquity. And if Saddam, Mao and all other historical bizarre characters built for themselves giant statues, why shouldn't the Roman emperors have done the same? At least we enjoy seeing the Romans' good taste...One of those who regarded themselves bigger than i... |
9 August 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Rapa Nui or Easter Island, also called by the locals Tepitothenua (the navel of the world) is an almost barren triangular island of 170 square kilometers, believed to be the most isolated inhabited place on Earth, at 3,760 km (2,300 mi) off Chile, to which it belongs, at 27o 08' S and 109o 23' V. It is a vo... |
3 April 2007
12:18 GMT |
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Greek archaeologists have found a 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera, inside the walls of a city, near Mount Olympus, the place where ancient Greeks believed their gods lived. The headless marble statue was found during the 2006 diggings in the ruins of ancient Dion, some 53 miles (90 km) southwest of Thessalo... |
2 March 2007
07:28 GMT |
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