On a summer day in 2020, a trail enthusiast was hiking in the Swiss Alps between the Ammertenhorn and Wildstrubel mountains, ...

For centuries, barefoot pilgrims have walked through the arid jungles and lush forests of Sri Lanka’s east and south, ...

Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since its rehabilitation in 2022, says project organizer ...

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.

A religious shrine sealed up by the ancestors of Jesus, preserved for nearly 3,000 years, has been discovered in the ancient heart of Jerusalem. Experts believe that the destruction of the shrine ...

The sacred camphor tree at Kinomiya Shrine in Atami is no ordinary timber. Estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, it is ...

After a 39-year conservation process, the Lough Kinale Book Shrine is on view at the National Museum of Ireland.

Then a third people moved in to take over the ancient shrine. They decided that the bluestones were not big enough, so they quarried enormous blocks of sandstone in the Marlborough Downs, 25 miles ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Archaeologists recently dug up an ancient reliquary in Austria, and we may soon find out just where it came from—and even what holy treasures it ...

One of the ancient written tablets found at the temple in Nimrud. Photo from the Penn Museum Other finds included “a stone bowl set into the brick floor of the shrine,” pottery fragments ...

Researchers believe an ancient shrine or worship site in Hawaii acted “as a sophisticated seasonal calendar.” The heiau, as it’s known in Hawaiian, was reconstructed in 2007 and dates to the ...

Researchers believe an ancient shrine or worship site in Hawaii acted “as a sophisticated seasonal calendar.” The heiau, as it’s known in Hawaiian, was reconstructed in 2007 and dates to the ...