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Spanish King Felipe VI (L), his wife Queen Letizia (2R) and their daughters Spanish crown princess Leonor (2L) and princess Sofia pose at the door of Can Prunera Museum in the village of Soller on Mallorca island, on August 6, 2017. JAIME REINA / AFP
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This file photo shows a 13-meter-high bronze statue of Alexander the Great, officially named "Warrior on a Horse," onto its 10-meter high pedestal pictured at night in Central Square in Skopje. After a quarter-century-long dispute that has blocked its entry to NATO and the European Union, Macedonia seems determined to end the row with Greece over its name. The quarrel between Skopje and Athens dates back to Macedonia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and has poisoned neighbourly relations. Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP
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Indian workers paint a statue of the national emblem, a depiction of tbe Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka, ahead of the forthcoming Independence day celebrations at the state secretariat building in Mumbai on August 7, 2017. Independence day is celebrated every year on August 15th to commemorate the independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947. INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP
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A statue of French General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, compte de Rochambeau, who assisted the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, looks over Brenton Cove August 5, 2017 in Newport, Rhode Island. EVA HAMBACH / AFP
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A Syrian worker sands a oud at a workshop in the Syrian capital Damascus. The first Damascene oud was produced in 1897 by Abdo al-Nahhat, who became one of the country's most renowned lute-makers. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
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Women walk past bronze busts of Russian rulers, from ancient times to the 1917 revolutions, at the so-called Alley of Rulers in downtown Moscow on August 7, 2017. Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP
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This photo taken on August 6, 2017 shows workers painting Dixi opera masks on a wall in Anshun in China's southwestern Guizhou province. Three masks on the wall measure 13 metres (42 ft.) in height and 7 meters (23 ft.) in width each, and were painted to promote the Dixi opera mask festival from August 17 to 26. STR / AFP
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An Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is pictured at the garden of the Museum Dolores Olmedo in Mexico City. PEDRO PARDO / AFP
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A picture taken on August 3, 2017 shows Soviet decomissioned icebreaker Lenin (now serves as a museum) in the Arctic Circle port city of Murmansk. Maxim ZMEYEV / AFP
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Children walk by a mural depicting late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez at "23 de Enero" neighbourhood in Caracas near the "Cuartel de la MontaƱa" museum where his body rests, on July 28, 2017 on the 63rd anniversary of his birth. The opposition called fresh nationwide demonstrations in defiance of a new government ban on rallies ahead of Sunday's controversial vote to elect a body to rewrite the constitution. Ronaldo SCHEMIDT / AFP