Many statues of famous individuals turn out hilariously inaccurate. First lady Melania Trump's statue, unveiled in her hometown of Sevnica in Slovenia in July 2019, looks like a discolored lump of ...
A medallion of General Franco in Salamanca, Spain. Erected in 1879, the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney’s Hyde Park bears an inscription that claims Cook “discovered” Australia. But those ...
What they left behind, however, remains one of the most captivating riddles of engineering: nearly 1,000 monolithic statues. The massive effigies, on average 13 feet tall and weighing 14 tons ...