The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and must be undertaken at least once by all Muslims who can afford the travel ...

Officials say more than one million Muslim pilgrims from around the world have already arrived in the country.

Muslim pilgrims gather at the top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy on the Plain of Arafat during the Hajj pilgrimage near Mecca on ... the Prophet Muhammad’s tomb and the second ...

The first batch of Gombe State pilgrims has departed Medina for Mecca to continue their Hajj rites, the state Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board said on Friday.According to a statement by the board’s media ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey. Several colossal heads that once stood in the mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene now lie in front ...

Hit bronze.” The excavators exploring a small stone shaft on a rocky promontory in southern Greece had found an unusual tomb of an ancient warrior. The burial may hold important clues to the ...

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