Today the Temple Mount, a walled compound within the Old City of Jerusalem, is the site of two magnificent structures: the Dome of the Rock to the north and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the south.

“This area was the temple of Assur,” Abdullah said, shielding his eyes from swirling dust. “The most important place in the whole city.” As I looked with Abdullah across the ...

By the first century CE, Ephesus was already ancient. Established sometime around 1000 BCE in what is now Turkey on with ...

The temple appears to have been forgotten for almost 1700 years until it was rediscovered in the 18th century and attracted intense interest from scholars and artists. The isolation of the site ...

It is also the site of the Temple of the Tooth Relic (the sacred tooth of the Buddha), which is a famous pilgrimage site. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Ce site sacré du ...

The Temple of Zeus in Magnesia is thought to ... important sacred areas of Magnesia,” and the second major cult site after Artemis. “It has been underground for a hundred years.