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Archaeologists Uncover Two Nearly Life-Size Statues Carved Into the Wall of a Tomb in Ancient Pompeii
The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...
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Sculptor Ti Pèlen, Known Figure in Haitian Arts Collective, Dies at 66
Haitian sculptor Ti Pèlen, whose birth name is Jean Salomon Horace, died last month at the age of 66. His cause of death ...
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The Secrets of Easter Island
Carved from a soft stone called lapilli tuff, a compressed volcanic ash, several figures lie side by side in a niche. “These people had absolute control over the stone,” Pakarati says of the ...
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‘Unique’ jade-like pendant — 7,600 years old — discovered in Serbia. See the jewelry
figure by M. Börner & F ... Now, excavations at the site have revealed ancient structures — and a “unique” carved stone. “The majority of the approximately 30 excavated or partially ...
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Reclining figure by Henry Moore
Reclining Figure' was carved by the artist in Brown Hornton Stone, sourced from quarries in North West Oxfordshire. Its simplified forms show the influence of non-western carving, which Moore ...
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Carved relief from Nineveh
Ashurbanipal built a new palace, now known as the Northern Palace, and decorated it with finely carved stone reliefs ... On the far right is the figure of a boy turning around to a person now ...