WASHINGTON — The statue in the Jefferson Memorial is 19 feet tall, but it’s the words carved in stone around the bronze figure that are truly monumental. Such as these, from Jefferson’s Declaration of ...

A sketch hidden on concrete walls in the undercroft of the Lincoln Memorial for over a century may be graffiti of early film star Theda Bara.

Long hidden graffiti scrawled on a pillar deep beneath the Lincoln Memorial may be a besotted worker’s drawing of a sexy screen siren from the silent age of film.

Century-old graffiti under the Lincoln Memorial may depict silent-film star Theda Bara, with a profile sketch and the word "Vamp" found on the pillars in the basement.

Stephen Potter, a retired regional archaeologist for the service’s national capital region, cataloged some of the graffiti in the 1980s, noting “some that were extremely well executed.” ...

Retropolis Lincoln’s secret: Below the memorial, graffiti may show racy screen star The Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft ...

Mike Litterst stood in the cavernous space under the Lincoln Memorial and pointed out that 40 feet up you could see concrete beams that support the 175-ton marble sculpture of Abraham Lincoln ...

The union that represents members of the United States Park Police today said that staff and funding cuts played a role in letting “thugs and extremists” paint pro-Hamas graffiti in red paint ...

The National Parks Service has said that Lincoln Memorial was vandalised with "Free Gaza" graffiti on Wednesday, December 20. The destruction was seen in the Lincoln Memorial Circle and the ...

JTA — The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC closed temporarily on Wednesday after its steps were vandalized with graffiti reading “Free Gaza” in multiple places.

The steps of the memorial were splattered with red paint and pro-Palestinian messages, which the National Park Service said could take some time to clean up.

(JTA) — The Lincoln Memorial closed temporarily on Wednesday after its steps were vandalized with graffiti reading “Free Gaza” in multiple places. U.S. Park Police are investigating the ...