With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was said to depict an "Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq" in 2023. The winged bull figure is lamassu, a likeness ...

Macon native Jeff Battcher said he was at the Vatican in November 2022, just feet away, when Pope Francis blessed the original “Sheltering” statue.

Two decades after its creation and four years after its artist died, the replica Ad Astra statue now sits in its rightful place upon a pedestal at the Statehouse grounds. The iconic 22-foot-tall ...