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Three Spanish pilgrims performing the Hajj in Saudi Arabia rode on horseback to Makkah, traveling thousands of kilometers in ...

Many unexpected treasures have turned out to be true storytellers, solving mysteries and illuminating the shadows of the past ...

The temple of Goddess Vaishno Devi is one of the major and sacred Hindu temples dedicated to Parvati or Goddess Shakti the Divine Consort of Lord Shiva This beautiful temple lies ensconced among the p ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

Ancient Rome is often seen as synonymous with culinary excess. Images of exotic – even orgiastic – feasts perpetuate its reputation for strangeness and decadence.It may come as no surprise, therefore, ...

Ancient Rome ... agree the text is more likely a compilation of recipes from both the Greek and Roman traditions, written and revised between the first and 5th centuries AD. Regardless, the ...

Story continues below this ad The ... s ancient literary heritage. Both are specific manuscripts — not the text in general — preserved by the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune. Estimates ...

dated between 350–500 AD, exemplify the use of these devices. This particular weight, made of copper alloy and filled with lead, reflects the continuity of weighing practices from ancient Greece into ...

DILHORNE is a tiny village in Staffordshire and it's home to an award-winning pub called Charlie Bassetts. Located just 20 minutes from Alton Towers, the Travellers' Choice Award winner has ...

was thrown into the sea… a third of the living creatures in the sea died,' the ancient text reads. The Book of Revelation (written towards the end of the first century AD) is packed with imagery ...

St David was born in or around the year 500 AD. According to the story ... Dewi was known in Latin as Davidus, and thus in English as David. What little is known about David is largely based upon an ...