Mandalay (Myanmar) (AFP) – Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar's faithful ...

Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar's faithful -- but getting the marble he needs from rebel-held quarries in the midst of civil war is now a ...

In 2023, a statue to commemorate the United States Troops was erected in Pulaski, TN — an effort led by Vivian Sims.

Now, moving the precious stone and roughly carved statues by truck across the divide of the civil war, from rebel to junta-held territory, is expensive, difficult and dangerous. "The situation ...

In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

The idea for a statue to Smalls has been percolating for ... South Carolina House and Senate and the US House after the Civil War? Smalls bought his master’s house in Beaufort in part with ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s ...

Library of Congress South Carolina plans to erect a statue honoring Robert Smalls, a man who escaped slavery to become a Civil War hero and a lawmaker. It will be the first monument to an ...

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.