Cyrus the Great (590-529 BCE) was known as an innovative warrior and a benevolent king. He expanded the Achaemenid Dynasty to ...

The Temple of Hera, home to the frontrunner of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece. Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the 2018 Winter Olympics in ...

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The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor ...

Ephesus was renowned in antiquity for the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... and was ruled by native tyrants appointed by the Persian satrap at Sardis. In 499 BCE, the ...

The people revered this statue until it was destroyed by an earthquake in the 5th century B.C.E. Temple of Artemis The temple was built in honor of Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt.

One of the main features of the ruins of Sardis is the magnificent temple of Artemis, built during the fourth century B.C. by Alexander the Great in the glen of Pactolos. The system there was very ...

The great poet Homer came from this region. The Temple of Artemis, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, is also located here. Ionian philosophy began with wonder at looking at the world.

Ephesus and Sardis remind us to keep our love alive ... It also had a temple dedicated to Domitian, a temple dedicated to Artemis—which was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world ...

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In the center of the ancient city of Madurai lies one of the largest temple complexes in India. Peeking out from the 20-foot wall surrounding the site, the famous temple is a beacon for the 15,000 ...

The Satanic Temple of Iowa says a statue depicting the pagan idol Baphomet, part of its controversial display in the Iowa Capitol, had been destroyed. “This morning, we were informed by ...