‘Are they worried about Jane Austen fans?’: Statue defenders draw scorn as they stand in front of sculpture of writer George Eliot during Black Lives Matter protest The ‘defenders’ surrounded a statue of George Eliot in Nuneaton, Warwickshire The writer was a known critic of slavery and she strongly opposed anti-semitism Statue defenders have been … Read more
Not fur real: Armed police swoop on sleepy Kent village after a ‘tiger’ is spotted on the loose… but turns out to be a 20-year-old sculpture made by a local grandmother Sculpture mistaken for a tiger in woodland in Ightham, near Sevenoaks, in Kent Kent Police sent ten armed officers to cope with the perceived … Read more
Archaeologists have discovered the 3,000-year-old remains of an Egyptian carving workshop containing several unfinished sculptures, including a ram-headed sphinx chiseled from sandstone. The ancient workshop is thought to date back to the 18th Dynasty, during the reign of Amenhotep III – King Tut’s grandfather. The Swedish-Egyptian team behind the discovery also found hundreds of hieroglyphic … Read more