Arthur Machen and his story The Great God Pan went on to influence writers and artists in distinct fields such as literature, ...

The Great Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, one of the oldest and most important religious monuments in the Islamic world, embodies ...

And along the sun-kissed Turkish Riviera, you’ll find hotels doing exactly that: their restaurants are so impressive, they’ll ...

Excavations beneath the Western Wall Plaza uncovered a rock-hewn mikveh, or ritual bath, dating to the final days of the ...

Archaeologists say excavated bath, filled with ash and debris, offers a window into the city’s spiritual life 2,000 years ago ...

As solo female travel continues to rise, we sat down with Angelique Chamberlain, travel writer for Los Angeles Times Studios, ...

The Temple of Olympian Zeus, dedicated the first among the Gods, is the most magnificent monument in Athens, other than the ...

The word "sacrilegious" originates from the Latin word sacrilegious, which combines sacr- (meaning sacred) and legere ...

The newly unsealed Jewish ritual bath, uncovered beneath the Western Wall Plaza, marks the first stratigraphic identification ...

Known as a kore, this 2,500 year-old-statue is a fusion of ancient aesthetics and a symbol of cultural exchange between the ...

A rare ritual bath found in Jerusalem offers new insight into purity practices during the Second Temple period.

Janus was the god of transitions, and so the passing of the old year and the beginning of the new were sacred to him, writes ...