A two-hour walk uphill from Quinchana, Salamanca and I found the La Gaitana archaeological site guarded by a pair of four-foot-high monkey statues with wide faces, round ears, and mouths bearing ...

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Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was founded in the 16th century on the ruins of an Inca city and stands at an altitude of 2,850 m. Despite the 1917 earthquake, the city has the best-preserved, least ...

In Parma, Ohio, yet another chapter unfolds in the series of flamingo statue thefts that haunt the city's public art efforts. The latest flamingo statue theft occurred at the intersection of ...

cotosa/Shutterstock.com The monkey orchid symbolizes death as it associates darkness with what comes with evil. They’re a rare flower existing only in the wild cloud forests of Peru, Columbia, and ...

The John A. Macdonald statue is pictured outside Victoria city hall in 2018 in this file photo. John Rustad, the leader of the B.C. Conservatives, has reopened a conversation of returning the John A.

Kyrgyzstan has taken down a huge statue of the revolutionary Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, which was thought to be the tallest in Central Asia. First erected when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet ...

LANCASTER, Ohio (WCMH) — There is a new statue in the city of Lancaster honoring Scipio Smith, the man who became the city’s first Black business owner in the 1800s. The statue is along Main ...

Trump’s plan for a national statue garden could get built on sacred Native land currently held by a wealthy South Dakota mining family. A provision buried deep in the House budget bill allocates ...

Ten stocks soared higher on Thursday, with four mining stocks notably joining the list, thanks to the surge in prices of gold and silver during the session. The firms outpaced a sluggish ...

The statues and memorial found around Upstate New York are a history lovers dream come true. They tell the heroic stories, in bronze and steel, of some of the most important people and historic events ...