50 Amazing Snow and Ice Sculptures From Around the World By Hannah Lang, Stacker News On 12/19/20 at 9:00 AM EST Ice sculptures have a rich history, and evidence suggests people may have been carving ice as early as 600 B.C. However, as tools and technology advanced, ice sculptures did as well. In the 1600s, fishermen in the China province of Heilongjiang would freeze water inside buckets, and then remove the buckets and put a candle inside to create ice lanterns—a tradition still celebrated today at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. Later, in 1739, Russian empress Anna Iva...