The two statues stand in niches hewn into the cliff overlooking Bamiyan, a main stop along a southern spur of the Silk Route which led from Central Asia down to the Khyber Pass, the Indus River to ...

A monument to a British explorer that’s stood in Sydney’s Hyde Park for 138 years is at the center of a debate that’s becoming louder and more divisive about how the country remembers its past.

Kyrgyzstan has taken down a huge statue of the revolutionary Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, which was thought to be the tallest in Central Asia. First erected when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet ...

The statue was erected by a civil group in December to remember “comfort women ... The use of forced prostitution in Japanese-occupied parts of East Asia was first suggested in 1932 and ...

Investigators say they have figured out how bronze statues from a shrine built 2,000 years ago in Asia Minor to venerate the emperors of Rome ended up in museums around the world. By Graham Bowley ...

Manado, capital of Protestant-majority North Sulawesi province in eastern Indonesia, now has the tallest statue of Christ in Asia, thanks to a top Indonesian real-estate developer. The 30-meter-tall ...

In Osh, Kyrgyzstan, authorities have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest of its kind in Central Asia. Erected in 1975, when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet ...

Seoul - South Korean activists unveiled plans on Wednesday to put up statues - commemorating women forced into wartime sexual slavery by Japan - in a number of Asian countries, starting with ...

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is set to return four bronze statues from Thailand’s famed Prakhon Chai hoard, looted in the 1960s and smuggled abroad. Installation view at the Moving Objects ...