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Various political leaders have reacted to the defacement of Dr B R Ambedkar's statue, the architect of the Indian Constitution, on Heritage Street in Punjab's Amritsar on Republic Day (26 January).

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Historic Ankara, with its youthful population, still isn’t much of a tourist town – and that’s not a bad thing.

Archaeologists in Greece reported back from Philippi of the astounding archaeological marvels recently unearthed, including a youth in the wall.

Professor Serdar Aybek, who is leading the excavations, said that the bronze fragments of the statues were found in the corner of the room, in a dump, where the parts were disassembled for melting.

A more than 2,000-year-old marble statue of a woman has been found discarded in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. A local resident stumbled upon the 31-inch statue next to a bin in Neoi ...

Archaeologists in Izmir, Turkey, have uncovered a remarkable site believed to be an ancient bronze statue scrapyard. Among the ruins of the ancient city of Metropolis, roughly 2,000 fragmented bronze ...

Found all around Ireland and in the UK, these X-rated 11th-century statues depict women exposing their private parts with huge grimaces on their faces but what's the history behind these grotesque ...

After years of getting bigger, turkey shotguns are now shrinking as small-gauge options attract interest among hunters. While you can still find new 3½-inch 12-gauges decked out for the spring ...