MOENJODARO, Pakistan: Hundreds of people swarmed the ancient ruined city of Saturday to attend an inaugural festival commemorating Pakistan’s cultural heritage, days after experts warned the event endangered the UNESCO […]
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Excavations prior to the construction of a new neighborhood in Israel have turned up the ruins of a 1,500-year-old Christian church with a beautiful mosaic. Archaeologists found the Byzantine-era church […]
Excavations in the historical centre of the southern Portuguese town of Loulé have now revealed the layout of the public bathing complex, one of the most complete on the Iberian […]
Story Summary By Alexander Dziadosz A decade on from the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and whipped up a tsunami of theft in Baghdad, Iraq’s National Museum is preparing to display its treasures of Mesopotamian culture – even if thousands are missing. The looting of the museum under […]
God has created everything in this universe in due proportion and measure both quantitatively and qualitatively. God has declared in the Qur’an: “Verily, all things have We created by measure” […]
(ANSAmed) – ISTANBUL, DECEMBER 3 – A well-known Maltese historian and chairman of the National Book Council, Mark Camilleri, has accused Malta’s Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of attempting to cover-up the island’s Islamic past, as Anadolu Agency reports. Camilleri, who wrote a book challenging the notion that the people of […]
by Julie McCarthy December 01, 2013 Think Taj Mahal and then try to imagine what came before it. What was the inspiration for that masterpiece? Archaeologists and architects say a […]
Source: ndtv.com In traditional narratives, Queen Maya Devi, the mother of Buddha, gave birth to him while holding on to a branch of a tree in a garden at Lumbini, in […]
World Bulletin / News Desk The Israeli authorities have opened a new museum beneath the third holiest site in Islam, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in eastern Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound […]
Madinah Gov. Prince Faisal bin Salman has ordered the constitution of a committee to identify historical sites in the central area next to the Prophet’s Mosque. The committee, to be […]
Experts have called on the government to protect various ancient sites and mosques in Makkah because of their religious and historical importance. Talal Al-Sharif, an Islamic antiquities expert, said the […]
By SAPTARISHI DUTTA A week after Indian government archaeologists started digging for treasure with nothing more than the word of a Hindu holy man’s vision to guide them, they have […]
Israel to build synagogue in Al Aqsa mosque compound Press TV: A report has been leaked from the Israeli Knesset by the Al-Aqsa Foundation, stating that Tel Aviv has new […]
by Scott Capper, swissinfo.ch October 17, 2013 – 20:00 Swiss and Georgian researchers have suggested that some of the earliest humans living 1.8 million years ago could all belong to […]
Roman ruins are rarely boisterous places, full of noise, laughter and life. But Edward Lewis stumbled across one that is – a place to have a daily wash, and to […]
Among its ruins, Robert Fisk joins an archaeological dig that could transform our understanding of Lebanon’s bloody past ROBERT FISK WEDNESDAY 09 OCTOBER 2013 Across the ruins of ancient Sidon, […]
Among its ruins, Robert Fisk joins an archaeological dig that could transform our understanding of Lebanon’s bloody past ROBERT FISK WEDNESDAY 09 OCTOBER 2013 Across the ruins of ancient Sidon, […]
Currently, about 20 Jews are estimated to be living in Indonesia. Haaretz: Indonesia’s last remaining synagogue has been destroyed, a Dutch news site reported last week. ……….. Situated in in […]
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