Two thousand years ago a statue of a lion watched over a temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. More recently, after being excavated in the 1970s, it became an emblem of the city and a ...

Now the Lion of al-Lat stands proud again, after being carefully restored by Polish archaeologist Bartosz Markowski and re-erected in Damascus. Russian soldiers attend the unveiling ceremony of ...

The Lion of al-Lāt, as the statue is known, was badly damaged, but it was not destroyed. As Kinda Makieh reports for Reuters, the towering relic has been restored, and on Sunday, it was put on ...

Henry Cole, the founding director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, issued a convention promoting the reproduction of works of art “for the benefit of museums of all countries,” in 1867.