These ancient monuments were discovered by Kondaveeti Gopi Varaprasada Rao, a research scholar at Maulana Azad National Urdu ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

In 1876, Frederick Douglass addressed a crowd of some 25,000 people gathered to dedicate a new monument to Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Memorial statue, a life-size bronze also known as the ...

The Washington Monument was lit for the 54th time Thursday in Mount Vernon. The Baltimore tradition included, music, food, and chilly weather. Twenty-eight strands of lights and 12,800 bulbs are used ...

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New analysis highlights the extensive risk to U.S. rivers, streams, and drinking water supplies posed by the Trump administration’s threats to eliminate protected national monuments. The East Branch ...

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Installation view of 'MONUMENTS,' October 23, 2025, through May 3, 2026, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Los Angeles never had Confederate monuments. Until now. A joint exhibition hosted by The ...

In Los Angeles earlier this month, everyone was talking about “Monuments,” an exhibition at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary that juxtaposes decommissioned Confederate statues with works by contemporary ...

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The first thing you see is a horse’s ass, protruding, upside down, from the thorax of a monster. A man’s arm descends from the beast’s stomach, his gloved hand clutching the blade of a fallen sabre.