A fierce ownership dispute between Pakistan Railways and the Auqaf Department over the 200-year-old Syed Masoom Shah shrine — ...

Two altars in an ancient shrine in Israel have been revealing their secrets. Material on the altars of the shrine, which was originally at Tel Arad in the Beersheba Valley, was found to include ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two remarkably well-preserved shrines, among other notable finds, at an ancient temple that was devastated by a fire around 2,600 years ago. The discoveries came to light ...

SHINKOKU is the sacred name of Japan, — Shinkoku, “The Country of the Gods;” and of all Shinkoku the most holy ground is the land of Izumo. Hither from the blue Plain of High Heaven first came to ...

Modern archeological methods—including electrical soil probes and carbon 14 dating—are stripping bit by bit the ancient mystery from Stonehenge, the great megalithic monument on Britain’s Salisbury ...

Researchers have discovered traces of cannabis and frankincense at an ancient shrine located in what is now Israel, arguing that the substances may have been used in hallucinogenic cult ritual ...

JERUSALEM — The barely legible name “Simon” carved in Greek letters high on the weather-beaten facade of an ancient burial monument led to the discovery of six inscribed lines of the Gospel verse Luke ...

Astonishing evidence for an ancient form of sophisticated machining into very hard stone can be seen on one of the artifacts ...

A mysterious, orange gunk found in a bronze jar uncovered some 70 years ago at an ancient shrine near Pompeii, Italy, has finally been identified as honey. After several failed attempts over recent ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi archaeologists think that tunnels dug by Islamic State militants under a destroyed shrine in Mosul have revealed the palace of an ancient Assyrian king who ruled some 2,700 ...

Ancient Canaanite ritual artifacts and 5,000-year-old winepress discovered at Tel Megiddo in Israel, the biblical site known as Armageddon from the Book of Revelation.