The long-term loan is the latest agreement Yemen has made with a museum in order to protect its cultural heritage amid ongoing civil war

The team was analyzing the structure of a royal palace’s gate when they discovered 12 statues made out of sandstone

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Underwater statues and submerged hotels are some of the latest attractions on the Great Barrier Reef, concerning an old-school dive operator.

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It’s not that I would be without the pyramids. Nor do I think that the Taj Mahal is a waste of good stone. These tombs, monuments to the departed are treasures beyond price. But can you name the pharaohs or the Mughal empress whose death they mark? No, nor can I without the help of Google.

Hotels in the southeastern province of Adıyaman are enjoying a 100 percent occupancy rate thanks to a flock of domestic visitors wanting to spend their upcoming nine-day Eid al-Fitr holiday, along with the increasing number of foreign visitors wanting to see the beautiful Mount Nemrut.

What signature moments from hockey history should be immortalized outside of arenas? Here are our picks.

Vintage is best — chipped, stained and covered with lichen and moss

Gwendoline Christie put her statuesque figure on full display on Thursday in an accentuated shoulder coat and towering boots at the Rick Owens show in Paris.

She took the stage as a presenter alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. And ahead of her appearance, Tina Fey looked statuesque as she stepped out at the Tony Awards red carpet in New York on Sunday.

British gardening expert Monty Don shared his advice for how to grow valerians - which were introduced from the Mediterranean before 1600.

Someone call the fashion police because Joan Rivers is going to need some higher heels.

She rose to fame as a professional dancer. And Jenna Dewan put her statuesque dancer's legs on display in a black wrap mini-dress when she was glimpsed shopping in Los Angeles this Thursday.

Officers stopped two wooden crates at Heathrow Airport, from Peshawar, in Pakistan, after suspecting the Buddha sculpture and nine Buddha heads inside might contain drugs.

Top photographer Amos Chapple has taken a set of fascinating photographs of Prague's rooftop statues and sculptures, from the beautiful to the bizarre and from the elegant to the grotesque.