This is the story of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, an attraction of Athens that was once among the largest temples of the ...

Long before the Inka (commonly known as Inca in English) rose to power, a mysterious civilization bloomed on the edge of Lake ...

Flickr/Ken Lund Pu’ukoholā Heiau National Historic Site In 1790, a Hawaiian priest named Kapoukahi delivered a prophecy that ...

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

New temple discovery shows how Tiwanaku connected sacred rituals with Andean trade and political networks. Along the southern ...

In Inanna’s case, it was her sister Ereshkigal, queen of the underworld. Ereshkigal wasn’t evil. She wasn’t the devil. She was pain. Raw, buried, sacred pain, the kind most people avoid. But Inanna ...

An 800-year-old Shiva temple of the later Pandya period has been unearthed at Udampatti, a village in Melur taluk. Professor P. Devi Arivu Selvam, temple architect and sculpture researcher, says ...

The Temple of Hera, also known as the Heraion, is thought to have been constructed around 600 B.C.E. Originally, the structure was dedicated to another god: Hera’s unfaithful husband, Zeus.

More organised, some may say, than the one in which we live now. Saar (Saar Temple on Google Maps). Sheikh Isa bin Ali House Credit: Sheikh Isa bin Ali House The residence of Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al ...

Karni Mata Mandir in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, is a unique temple. It is home to thousands of rats. These rats are not pests but sacred beings. Devotees revere them as reincarnations of Karni Mata's ...

Thousands of devotees thronged the temple of Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple at Simhachalam to participate in the biggest annual festival – Chandanotsavam – here on Wednesday, April 30.

Of immense symbolic importance, Eridu was also home to the largest temple dedicated to Enki, the god of water and wisdom, a key deity of the Sumerian pantheon. For centuries, this shrine attracted ...