A downtown London monument’s restoration, slated to wrap up last month, will now take until the end of May to complete, city hall officials say. The People and the City monument, installed in 1991 and ...

A fraternity founded 100 years ago at Lafayette College was set to be recognized at Easton’s Scott Park with a 15-foot obelisk. But after a vote by city council, Scott Park will not be the obelisk’s ...

If the River Thames is London’s intestine—and it has at times performed a similar function—it has grown polyps. At ...

Soulton Hall is to welcome Mary Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall—former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom—for a landmark lecture on Magna Carta on Friday, April 24.

The iconic Elephant and Obelisk monument in Rome, designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is seen without the tip of the left tusk on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, after Police found an ...

This is the moment brazen thieves tore down and stole the £100,000 bronze statue of a champion British boxer. Newly released footage shows how four suspects, dressed in black with faces covered, ...

ROME(AP) — Italian police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk — again.

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Once derided as Britain's ugliest building, London's Southbank Centre is now a protected historic monument -- beloved by symphony-goers as well as skateboarders, who've taken over its Brutalist ramps.

Explore February 21-22 history including Malcolm X's assassination, The Communist Manifesto launch, George Washington's birth, and the 1848 French Revolution in Paris.

Across Egypt, massive granite columns, obelisks, and pyramid stones show clear evidence they were quarried directly from deep bedrock. Quarry marks found on Old Kingdom monuments match the same scoop ...