Creation legends and folk tales swirl like snow and leaves across the protected landscapes of Japan. This selection of four ...

This is neither new nor necessarily bad. “Presidents who go down in the history books as ‘great’ are those who reach for power, who assert their authority to the limit,” the presidential ...

The Coldplay frontman and his longtime love visited Mumbai's Babulnath Temple before the band played its first-ever stadium show in India Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

On a typical Friday night, Jewish parishioners of Temple Beth-El of Great Neck gather for Shabbat service. But every January, Rabbi Brian Stoller said the synagogue opens its doors to "the entire ...

It's 1000 CE - the heart of the Middle Ages. Europe is in flux. The powerful nations we know today - like Norman-ruled England and the fragmented territories that will go on to become France - do ...

The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site It's 1000 CE - the heart of the Middle Ages. Europe is in flux. The powerful nations we ...

For a medieval Indian ruler like Rajaraja Chola, building a great temple wasn’t necessarily just a devotional act. You see this in the inscriptions, where it’s not just the king who’s making gifts, ...