Updated 7 p.m. ET with the replacement head being removed. The CBC reports that an odd-looking substitute for a stolen head of Jesus has itself now been removed from a statue. The church's priest ...

Roman statues frequently appear headless due to their necks' fragility, deliberate actions such as damnatio memoriae to erase disgraced emperors, and the sculptor's choice of removable heads. Some ...

But broken heads aren't always an accident; sometimes, the Romans deliberately smashed their own statues. In a process called "damnatio memoriae," the Roman Senate could vote to condemn the memory ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the "beautiful" head of a marble statue thought to depict an ancient Greco-Roman god. A team led by Natalia Poulou of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki found ...

A life-sized statue of an American icon was serving as the mascot for Cool and Eclectic in Virginia Beach. Then on July 17, 2005, it was beheaded.

Re-attachments of ancient heads to their original statues are rare, but the Getty found the head of this Roman woman almost 50 years after it had acquired the torso.

Ancient statue head found beneath 5th-century Catholic church. By Andrea Margolis Fox News. Published May 4, 2025 9:00am EDT | Updated May 1, 2025 4:00am EDT. Facebook ...

Spanish Statue Draws 'Potato Head' Comparisons After Failed Restoration: 'Like a Cartoon Character' The wonky statue, which previously showed a smiling woman, sits atop a bank in Palencia, Spain. By.

Starting July 4, the public will once again be able to get inside the Statue of Liberty's head, which is topped with 25 windows and seven spikes. Here are seven things you might not know about ...

A Roman statue dating back almost 2,000 years has been discovered by construction workers building a parking lot in the United Kingdom. Digger driver Greg Crawley uncovered the marble head of a ...