Sausalito’s iconic sea lion sculpture has been returned home, now stronger than ever. The sea lion, which fell off its cement pedestal in January 2023 after some rough storms, has been restored. The ...

What? The Lion of Venice, an ancient bronze statue of a winged lion which can be seen by countless tourists on a massive plinth of Egyptian granite in the Piazza San Marco. Why is it in the news? A ...

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To visitors, Venice is a glorious tapestry of historic buildings, waterways, bell towers, red roofs — and a mighty winged lion, the symbol of the Venetian republic, carved into structures across the ...

I n August 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, a scattering of ivory mammoth fragments was ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study appears to have traced the origins of Venice’s famed Lion of St. Mark to the Lower Yangtze River area of China. The statue bears a ...