Philadelphia police were called to the banks of the Schuylkill River just north of Boathouse Row around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday to find the Thorfinn Karlsefni statue submerged in the murky river.

At sunset on Monday, Philadelphia’s nearly century-old Thorfinn Karlsefni statue stood tall and proud on the banks of the Schuylkill. But by dawn on Tuesday, it had succumbed to the murky ...

conveying how Thorfinn might have appeared," according to the Association for Public Art's website. It's not the first time the Karlsefni statue came under attack. It was spray-painted with anti ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Crews removed the historic Viking statue from the Schuylkill River ... a.m. The 100-year-old statue is of Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni and is located near the lighthouse.

The statue was spray painted in the past, and has been the site of white nationalist demonstrations. It depicts Icelandic explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni, who was said to have visited America’s shores as ...

The statue is Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelandic hero who is thought to have visited the America's as early as 1004AD. Police have not yet named any suspects. The anti-terrorism unit is now involved ...

On this day, technician Karl Solmssen was cleaning Einar Jonsson's statue of Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni, along Boathouse Row. "These bronzes are hollow," Solmssen notes. "They're as thin ...

Philadelphia police said the statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelandic explorer thought to have visited North America as early as 1004 A.D., was torn off its pedestal, the television station ...