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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After cleaning, a major monument in Rome is set to be visible again. Sabina Crisan/dpa Restorers are freeing the impressive marble ...

Rome — High above the rooftops in the heart of Rome, restorers on Thursday used laser beams to clean a marble column in the piazza outside the prime minister’s office, removing layers of dust and ...

JERUSALEM — Moving a 4.7-ton piece of an ancient marble column is never easy. When the piece is from a column that was once part of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, making sure it is transported ...

A marble column from Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, is on display at Zhengjue Temple of Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park in Beijing on Friday. An exhibition displaying all seven marble columns ...

A repatriated marble column on display in Zhengjue Temple in Yuanmingyuan. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] After a long odyssey overseas, seven marble columns from the ruins of Yuanmingyuan, or the ...

A 61-year-old tourist is facing a decade behind bars in Greece after stealing an ancient marble column. The German man was arrested at the port of Patras after allegedly attempting to smuggle the ...

ROME — Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being ...