NEW YORK CITY -- The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously Monday to move a controversial 188-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson from the City Council chambers a City Hall. However ...

The mystery of how ancient people of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, managed to transport the massive moai statues was intriguing. New research likely offered a solution, as it confirmed a previously held ...

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and ...

Lea el artículo en español aquí. Four years ago, Mia Alonso Mendez initiated her quest to get the nine-foot statues of legendary labor movement leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta moved from their ...

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...

A recent study in The Journal of Archaeological Science by Carl Lipo of Binghamton University and Terry Hunt of the University of Arizona revived the “walking statues” hypothesis.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carl Lipo, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) Rapa ...

“Rusty’s Dream,” an iconic statue in Palisade that depicts a dog staring up at several fire hydrants, was moved over the weekend as work begins on a new roundabout on Highway Six at the intersection ...

HOT SPRINGS -- The city attorney says there are only two legal options available for officials who want to relocate a Confederate statue that sits on private property downtown. Property owners would ...

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — A Fernandina Beach landmark could soon destined for Davey Jones locker - or at least a museum. City leaders are considering a proposal to move Peg Leg Pete into the Amelia ...

We agree. The time has come. Charlottesville’s Civil War statues have become unbearably divisive. This is not about what invading ralliers did or did not believe when they came to our city; it is not ...