This 230-foot-tall mural of Lionel Messi has appeared on the side of an apartment block in the footballing icon’s Argentinian hometown. The image of the PSG and former Barcelona star was painted on the side of an apartment block in front of the Parana River in Messi’s hometown of Rosario…
A 3,200-year-old mural in Peru has been largely destroyed by farmers looking to gain more land who did not realise it was a sacred symbol that marked the location of an ancient burial site. The discovery was made in the valleys of the province of Viru in the Peruvian department…
A mural of George Floyd that was spray-painted onto the bomb-ruined walls of an artist’s former home in Syria has reportedly been defaced by jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda. Syrian street artists Aziz Al-Asmar and Anis Hamdoun painted the tribute to George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who was killed by…
Chinese officials have asked archaeologists to check on these ancient murals located in Buddhist grottoes after a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck the area. The earthquake took place early on Monday morning in Baicheng County, in Aksu Prefecture in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in north-western China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Although there…
This is the Russian pensioner who has decorated her house with murals made from hundreds of bottle caps which she collects from rubbish dumps. Pensioner Nina Krinitsyna has become an online hit after snaps of her house decorated in the village of Makarye in Kotelnichsky district in western Russia’s Kirov…
