At CERN, the enigmatic bronze Nataraja stands as a bridge between the empirical and the ineffable—a cosmic emblem transcending disciplinary bounds. This Shiva statue, a gift from India ...

The world's leading particle physics laboratory, CERN in Switzerland has a striking statue of Lord Shiva outside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). For many, this may seem surprising—what does a ...

At CERN, the enigmatic bronze Nataraja stands as a bridge between the empirical and the ineffable—a cosmic emblem transcending disciplinary bounds. This Shiva statue, a gift from India, celebrates the ...

The walls of Nataraja temple in Chidambaram also have ... Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai had gifted her a pair of bronze and iron cymbals. Kalakshetra struggled to find students. Inspired by the ...

Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin declared the bronze Nataraja statue “one of the greatest works of art ever created by the human mind.” His awe stemmed from the way it captured movement and stillness ...

The unorthodox works," he says. Nataraja has gone from mandatory bronze souvenirs gifted to visiting foreign delegations to dude of the hour and deity superhero. Fandom is the new devotion and it’s ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a seventh-century B.C.E. bronze head of a griffin to Greece after new research revealed that it had been stolen in ...

By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was ...

Pots like this were used to store grain. Image caption, This large bronze dagger was found at Oxborough in Norfolk. At first sight, it looks very dangerous. But in fact the blade is thick and blunt.