Mayor Eric Adams wants to landmark a pair of Big Apple Christopher Columbus statues — to protect them from mayoral front-runner and Columbus-hater Zohran Mamdani. Adams, who will leave office at the ...

The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around Easter Island. Reading time 3 minutes The moai statues of Easter Island have ...

A Norfolk Superior Court judge has temporarily blocked the planned installation of two large Catholic saint statues outside the new public safety headquarters in Quincy, Massachusetts. The city says ...

More than 30 monuments to Christopher Columbus were toppled or taken down in 2020. Now some are being restored, and finding new, usually less-public homes. The broken pieces of a Christopher Columbus ...

Scientists believe the statues may have "walked" Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass discovered a statue that he said rewrites what we know about Egyptian art history. The familial statue mixed ...

A judge on Tuesday barred Quincy officials from installing two Catholic statues outside a city public safety building until a lawsuit opposing them on constitutional grounds is resolved. In a 26-page ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams may be almost 5,000 miles away in Albania, but he was at the center of the mayor's race on Wednesday due to his recent campaign to landmark statues of Christopher ...

Extending a cultural fight that started years ago, Caltrans has quietly demolished a statue of 18th-century missionary and Catholic saint Junipero Serra that had overlooked Interstate 280 in ...

For years, researchers have speculated about how the ancient people of Easter Island managed to move their massive moai statues, some weighing several tons. A new study, published in the Journal of ...