It had been raining off and on ever since we reached Madurai. The dark clouds were a constant companion as we waded through the sea of people who had gathered around the Meenakshi temple. We went past ...

The temple may have been dedicated to a mother goddess worshipped by many cultures, including the Greeks and the Romans.

The custodians of an ancient Hindu religious site in Malaysia are planning to install an escalator as an alternative for those visitors either unable or unwilling to climb the 272 steps leading to its ...

The way these cave temples are carved painstakingly into rock formations, tells us plenty about how the incredibly talented craftsmen unfolded tales of diverse faiths and dynasties of that time. These ...

Anyone who travels along the Kandy – Jaffna highway, may be able to view the picturesque scene of the Dambulla rock and the cave temple which are considered as iconic landmarks which addsprestige to ...

Dr. Eitan Klein points to the place where the antiquities robbers were caught. A squad of antiquities robbers from the PA Arab village of Surif, 25 kilometers northwest of Hebron, was caught ...

WHEN Langdon Warner visited the Tun-huang Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (Ch’ien Fo Tung) in 1924, he found the place all but deserted and a prey to any hazard of passing soldiers or curio hunters. He ...

A 67-year-old Singaporean man fainted after climbing to the top of Perak Cave Temple in Ipoh, Malaysia, and had to be carried ...

(CNN) — The custodians of an ancient Hindu religious site in Malaysia are planning to install an escalator as an alternative for those visitors either unable or unwilling to climb the 272 steps ...