Being raised by hippies who met in a cult — not the horrible kind, but still — I have generally avoided getting too invested ...

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Yet its survival goes beyond mere luck; it is the product of brilliant engineering that has defied centuries of wear and tear. So How Did the Pantheon’s Dome Stand the Test of Time? Let’s explore this ...

I reach the final column in my series on the lost ancient kingdoms of Scotland and I am concluding with Bernicia, which flourished in ...

Check out some of the most famous animal statues in the world and find out about the animals that inspired them.

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Many Eastern Orthodox churches are built to face east while all the church buildings of the Eastern Coptic church are designed to face east ( St. Mark’s in Alexandria is one). Buildings obtained from ...

Jesus, the lord and saviour would have gone by Yeshua or Yeshu, which were the two of the most common names in Galilee at the ...

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An ancient pagan worship place ... The religious shrine is carved into the rock near Temple Mount and is made up of eight rooms with an altar, a sacred standing stone (massebah) and presses ...

Following the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70, Emperor Hadrian founded a Roman city named Aelia Capitolina. On the former quarry site, he built a pagan temple, which remained in use until Constantine ...

She wears an open crown and flowing gown, and stands upon a half moon. This Marian shrine, however, had been preceded on Tepeyac hill by the pagan temple honoring the earth and fertility goddess, ...