Over the weekend, a colossal statue of Amenhotep III that was discovered in 2004 was raised in its original Luxor location. The Luxor Times has posted additional photographs of the event. Nearly 3,000 fragments of Buddha statues dating from 534 to 577 A.D. have been unearthed at the site of Yecheng by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and […]

A construction project in Manchester, England, has revealed several shops and residences from “Angel Meadow,” a notorious nineteenth-century slum. “It was such a hideous, wet, horrible place to live, but it was these people who powered the Industrial Revolution in Manchester,” said site director Chris Wild. The economic crisis in Greece has forced the culture ministry to […]