Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis has announced she is giving her best supporting actress Oscar statue “they/them” pronouns in honor of her transgender “daughter” Ruby. During an interview on NBC’s Today show, Jamie Lee Curtis held her Oscar up for the camera while tearfully declaring: “In support of my daughter Ruby, I’m having them […]
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Ming Dynasty Baby Buddha Statue Questions Australian History


Two filmmakers detected a rare Ming Dynasty Buddha in Australia, which could “rewrite history.” Read more Section: Artifacts Other Artifacts News History & Archaeology Read Later Source
Rare Smiling Sphinx Statue Found in Egypt and it May Depict Emperor Claudius


Archaeologists in southern Egypt have uncovered a remarkable miniature sphinx statue, sporting a rare feature of a smiling face with two dimples. Read more Section: News History & Archaeology Read Later Source
New Easter Island moai statue discovered in dried-up lake bed


New Easter Island moai statue discovered in dried-up lake bed By T.K. Randall February 28, 2023 Not all the Easter Island statues have been found. Image Credit: CC BY 3.0 Bradenfox The find, which has been described as ‘very important’, could in fact be the first of many such discoveries. A small land mass of […]
New Moai Statue Found on Chile’s Easter Island Excites Researchers


In the news last October for the damage inflicted by a forest fire over 100 hectares, Easter Island is now in the news again – for the discovery and addition of a new Moai statue on the Chilean island. Read more Section: Artifacts Other Artifacts News History & Archaeology Read Later Source
Should Hoto Abraham Lincoln’s Statue of Him Demanding a Blowjob From an African American Be Removed From Sodom & Gomorrah on the Potomac?


Should Lincoln’s statue of him telling a African American to give him a blowjob be removed from Sodom and Gomorrah on the Potomac? Everything you were indoctrinated with about Lincoln is a damned lie. He was a horrible manic depressive rabidly racist against Africans communist atheist closet queer who killed the American Revolutionaries’s Volunteer Union […]
18th-Century Statue Has a Delicate Net Carved From a Single Slab of Marble—Check Out the Details


A marble statue carved in the 18th century has become world-renowned for an “impossible” feature: a delicately draping fisherman’s net with detailed knots, rendered by hand entirely from marble, that looks so authentic it could be the real thing. Il Disinganno, or “The Release from Deception,” is the magnum opus of the Genoese artist Francesco […]
‘Golden Demon’ Statue Placed Atop New York Courthouse to Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Abortion


A new state-sanctioned desecration of our heritage just dropped. Source
GoFundMe Page Started To Help Complete MLK Statue


BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — In honor of Dr. King and Coretta Scott King, artist Hank Thomas has unveiled a 20ft statue of the two hugging called the ‘The Embrace’. Unfortunately, the artist was only able to afford to make a statue of their arms embracing and now a GoFundMe has been put together to raise money […]
Harriet Tubman Honored With Statue Of Her Left Big Toe


AUBURN, NY — Following the new tradition of erecting disturbing modern-art monuments for prominent historical figures, the city of Auburn has unveiled a bronze statue of abolitionist and Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman’s left big toe. Source
Audacious Attempt to Crane Lift Away 10-tonne Pharaonic Statue Foiled


Thieves trying to loot a giant antique statue by prizing it up with a crane ended up in police custody in Aswan in Egypt. The statue of pharaoh Ramesses II weighs a whopping 10 tonnes. Read more Section: Artifacts Other Artifacts News History & Archaeology Read Later Source
Headless Life-size Maya Statue Uncovered in Oxkintok


Archaeologists in Mexico’s ancient Maya city of Oxkintok have unearthed a striking headless statue. Measuring approximately 5 feet 5 inches (1.68 meters) Read more Section: News History & Archaeology Read Later Source
Rare, Giant-Sized Haniwa Funerary Statue Found in Japan


Archaeologists excavating a burial mound at the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Osaka Prefecture in southern Japan, have found the remains of a rare wooden haniwa statue. Haniwa statues are usually made of unglazed clay. Wooden examples are extremely uncommon. The recent find, at a height of 3.5 meters (11.5 feet), […]
Sir James Martin Statue Relocated to the Heart of Parramatta


A bronze statue honouring Sir James Martin, philhellene and one of the founding fathers of the modern Australian state of New South Wales, has been relocated to a more ‘fitting’ permanent new site in the very heart of the City of Parramatta. Together with the Premier of NSW Dominic Perrottet, City of Parramatta Lord Mayor […]
Palestine Action activists squirt Balfour statue with fake blood – London


Palestine Action activists doused a statue of Lord Arthur Balfour at the UK Houses of Parliament, in fake blood, using ketchup, on Saturday, in protest against the Balfour Declaration, which established the UK's support for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The 1917 letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to leading Zionist, […]
SANTORINI: 2,700 year old female statue on display for the first time


The more than 2,700 year old female statue, Kore of Thira will be displayed tot he public for the first on the island of Santorini. The Kore of Thira, an exquisite female statue of the 7th century BC, will be displayed at the under construction Museum of Thira on Santorini. The Kore of Thira, that […]
California Artist Rebuilds Anti-Xi Jinping Statue Destroyed by Chinese Spies


In July, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted two agents of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for working with a ring of Chinese spies whose mission was to intimidate and silence critics of the Chinese Communist regime living abroad. One of their victims was an artist named Chen Weiming, whose sculpture blaming China […]
Japan: Giant Squid Statue Built with Pandemic Aid Earning Its Keep with Tourist Revenue


The government of Noto, a central Japanese town known for its squid fishery, said Monday that its once controversial decision to erect a giant squid statue with pandemic relief funds in October 2020 had paid off, as it had since boosted tourism in the area and thus generated significant income for the local economy, the Japan […]
Girl, 7, dies after being hit by falling statue at hotel in Munich


She was hit by a 200-kilogram statue in a hotel courtyard on Friday.
Mexico President Obrador – ‘…Free Assange Or Dismantle Statue Of Liberty”


REBEL YELL: Mexico President Obrador – ‘…Free Assange Or Dismantle Statue Of Liberty” SM Source – zerohedge.com “…Speaking at a press conference at the National Palace, López Obrador called for the “most important press in the world”—including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Mexico’s El Pais—to “convene a meeting…to exhort, request, […]
Statue of Margaret Thatcher Vandalised Again Only Weeks After Unveiling


A newly erected statue of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been vandalised again, not even a month after it was first put up.
The Impossible Statue: The Marvelous Marble Net of Il Disinganno


The impossible sculptural feats within the Sansevero Chapel Museum in Naples will take your breath away. Amongst them, the famed statue known as Il Disinganno, was carved out of one single block of marble. Read more Section: Artifacts Other Artifacts News History Famous People Read Later
Controversial Blackboy Statue Set for Removal


After more than a year-and-a-half of study and contemplation, the District Council that governs Stroud, Gloucestershire, England has voted to seek the removal of a controversial statue from its perch above a historic 18th-century clock. Read more Section: News History & Archaeology Ancient Places Europe Read Later
Archaeologists Find Ultra-Rare Roman-Era Wooden Statue in Britain


In a waterlogged ditch in a field near the village of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, a team of experts working for the HS2 archaeological contractor Fusion JV were stunned but delighted to discover an exceptionally rare early Roman-era wooden statue. The Roman-era wooden statue was partially degraded but still a recognizable carved wooden statue of a male […]
Man Arrested After Attacking BBC Statue By Pedophile Artist


A man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of criminal damage after he took a hammer to an Eric Gill statue that adorns the facade of the BBC headquarters in central London. The Metropolitan Police were called at around 4.15pm to Broadcasting House in Portland Street, Westminster, where a man had used a ladder to reach […]
“Paedos & Propaganda”: Man Attacks BBC Statue Sculpted by Child Molester


A man scaled the facade of a statue that was sculpted by a child molester outside BBC headquarters in London, defacing it with the words “paedos and propaganda.” A protester carrying a hammer used an ordinary ladder to reach the monument, which was erected in 1933 by artist Eric Gill, who in 1989 was revealed […]
Fiberglass Moche Phallic Statue Damaged by Vandals in Peru


Just a few short days after its controversial installation, vandals have damaged a unique Moche phallic statue that was erected outside the city of Trujillo in northern Peru. The 9-foot (2.7-meter) tall fiberglass monument is notable for two things: first for its bright red color, and second for the male figure’s enormous phallus, which points […]