Researchers believe that the statue was adorned in a building dating to the late Byzantine period in the 8th or 9th century AD for buildings during the Byzantine period.
According to Mayan tradition, the maize god was decapitated every year at harvest and was reborn in the new growing season.
Sandy Koufax is a Jewish baseball legend.
A sculpture in Toledo honors a medieval treasurer killed by the king.
This is not the first time a statue of former IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani has been torched in Iran.
The statue is 188-years old and about 7-feet tall and efforts for it to be removed reignited due to protests for racial justice throughout the United States last year.
The Robert E. Lee statue is one of the largest still standing in the United States. Memorials that honor leaders of the Confederate side have become targets of protests against racism.
The statue of Robert E. Lee was meant to be removed in 2017. A second statue is expected to be removed soon as well.
The bronze statue, work of Israeli sculptor Sigalit Landau, was placed alongside the statues of former Israel presidents in the presidents' district.
The buildup to the event, which will honor what would have been Diana's 60th birthday, has been the subject of intense media focus, with the brothers barely speaking to each other.
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