Yet another statue has been destroyed by vandals in an ongoing series of attacks on historic monuments in Australia that honour British historical figures.
President Joe Biden announced the establishment of two new national monuments in Nevada and Texas but his event was met by protesters of the Willow drilling project in Alaska.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is urging President Joe Biden to reverse former President Donald Trump’s decision to rollback the size of three national monuments.
New information on a peculiar type of Saudi Arabian monument that’s more numerous than expected has Paul Seaburn’s attention. As has often been a fallback explanation in the past, “ritual purposes” is invoked. However, the wider implications of the “new study” are significant, as this appears to be “one of the earliest, large-scale monumental building […]
In the wake of protests against deeply entrenched racism, statues of slave traders and Confederate leaders are being torn town and toppled both in the U.S. and abroad. The dismantling of Confederate statues in this particular moment are not spontaneous acts of destruction; they follow decades of debate and peaceful protest about the significance and […]
Anthropologists have been reconstructing faces of humans for decades, so why not dogs? Over in the Orkneys, dogs were very important to those ancient, indigenous peoples, and Esther Addley takes a moment to gaze upon this goodest of boyes. Meanwhile, in the 21st century, Amelia Heathman dares you to Watch A Pack Of Boston Dynamics […]
These photographs show the exterior of Ballachar Estate in Inverness, Scotland, which comes with an additional two-bedroom cottage. It has around 287 acres and even its own fishing spot.
As Americans debate the proper placement of Confederate statues, Russians have found a unique solution to a similar issue.
Greenville News Ask LaFleur: What are the stone monuments in Greenville's Cleveland Park?Greenville NewsAnswer: The monuments can be found along the Greenville Health System Swamp Rabbit Trail near the southwestern end of Cleveland Park. They stand in a circle and have no nearby marker to identify their significance. If you ask Paul Ellis, former …
The orbit of odd political claims stretched from Utah canyons to the looming Alabama Senate race to crazy-as-usual Washington in recent days. That’s what The Associated Press found when scrutinizing an …