On a chilly January evening, the Living Traditions Centre at Bikaner House was filled with a warm glow — floor lamps in ...

Officials have announced a number of discoveries during excavations around the valley temple of the powerful Egyptian queen, ...

Archaeologists working in Luxor, Egypt, recently made several discoveries in the area around Deir al-Bahari (also spelled Deir el-Bahari and Dayr al-Baḥrī), the famous mortuary temple built by ...

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The team found the temple's "foundation deposit" — objects that the ancient builders buried when they began construction of the temple. The artifacts found include an adze, a tool used to cut and ...

The narration, backed with life-like images generated through artificial intelligence-based software, also told the evolution of the 'Indian Yodha' from ancient battlefields to modern war zones ...

Hindu devotees pray before taking a dip at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers on the first day of the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India ...

These temples were all palaces of the gods, and they were meant as replicas on Earth of the heavenly world. Wat Phou was initially dedicated to Hindu gods, principally Shiva and Vishnu ...

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The Maha Kumbh mela finds its origins in ancient Hindu scriptures of the Rigveda. Its importance and spectacle has been revived by the state and central government, both ruled by the right wing ...

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The Maha Kumbh mela finds its origins in the ancient Hindu legend of "Samudra Manthan" (churning of the cosmic ocean), in the Rigveda, one of the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism. The event is a ...