The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

Yr-Old Temple of ‘Greek Goddess of Love’ Discovered in Turkey With the Inscription ‘This Is the Sacred Area' Idol worship has ...

Most relics found there until now were from a long-abandoned Greek necropolis and lakeside ... of a Hellenistic monument that is probably a temple, carved out of calcarenite, a type of limestone.

from one side right to the other, while the people are congregated.” If she did, he would repeal the taxes. The story goes that she took off her clothes, let down her long hair covering most of ...

Add that the venue is a cliff-side ... temple of the goddess Nature, the incarnation of beauty.” The German artist Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach wandered around the island in the early 1900s wearing a ...

Around him lay two bows, a long ... Greek letters, he began excavations that continued until the Soviet invasion in December 1979. Shaped like a triangle, roughly a mile on each side, the city ...

It is no doubt that religious beliefs have shaped the way human societies have been organized throughout history, and temples have been used to show ... or destroyed over the years. On the bright side ...

Bristling with side-scan and multibeam sonar as well as ... “We like to picture shipwrecks as Greek temples on a hill—you know, very picturesque,” he told me. “But they’re not.

The popular myth about the mysterious doorway centers around an Inca priest named Aramu Muru, who fled Spanish conquistadors with a sacred golden disk that was kept in Koricancha temple in Cusco.

Temple Beth-El of Great Neck will present an Israel discussion group regarding the West Bank, followed by an Israeli brunch in celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, on Sunday ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on ...