After the passing of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., the generals that succeeded him fought one another for control of the empire he left behind. One of the most brutal episodes of this ...

The mid-1980s "discovery" of the Colossus of Rhodes remains one of the most hilariously bizarre episodes in modern Greece.

The Statue of King Ramses II starts to be transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt moved an 83-tonne, ...

A massive statue discovered in the groundwater of a Cairo slum is likely not a depiction of the revered pharaoh Ramses II as first believed, the country’s antiquities minister said on Thursday. Khaled ...

A rendering of the Colossus of Rhodes statue reboot. (Photo: Colossus of Rhodes Project) The statue Colossus of Rhodes sat on a podium near the Harbor of Rhodes for 52 years until an earthquake struck ...

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Now a team of young European architects has concocted an immodest proposal to resurrect a supersized 21 st-century version of the original statue, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt moved an 83-tonne, 3,200-year-old statue of King Ramses II to the atrium of Cairo's new Grand Egyptian Museum on Thursday in a complex operation undertaken by army engineers ...