It all started with a couple of glasses of wine and a quick discussion of where to go for the next girls’ trip. We just ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani visits the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque ... Tajani earlier toured the landmark Umayyad mosque in Damascus. "It's a great pleasure... to be here this ...

How the inauguration of Lord Ram’s grand abode in Ayodhya a year ago was celebrated as an event emblematic of a Hindu revival ...

ASTANA – The Zhambyl Region is one of Kazakhstan’s most historically rich regions, home to ancient mysteries, sacred ...

From the Prado in Madrid and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the National Museum of Art in Beijing and the Getty Center in ...

Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant and explorer, records that the body of “Messer Saint Thomas the Apostle lies in this town…having no great population ... of the eighth century, in his ...

For centuries, Gedi was one of the most important Swahili towns near the East African coast, with a great mosque ... from the 5th century CE to the end of the 8th century CE, but archeologists ...

The Great Mosque of Djenne is the world’s largest mud structure and the third one built on the same site. The first one was constructed in the early 13th century and became a ... is a Buddhist temple ...

Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy In the early 19th century, Japan was a feudal society ruled by ... including the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the Great Mosque of Damascus (pictured here).

This great era in Islamic history is known as The ... work towards justice in society and a fair sharing of wealth. In the eighth year of his migration to Medina, Muhammad had gained so many ...