While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

It’s refreshing to see how a god or goddess can be made into the image of the human artists, and transgendered by devotion ...

We take a trip to Antonín Dvořák’s birthplace, the composer summer hideaway Vysoká, and other spectacular cultural ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Rituals: Gifts for the Gods, a landmark exhibition by the Hellenic Museum and Greece’s Ministry of Culture, opens May 30, ...

What Is the Hajj Pilgrimage and What Is Eid Al-Adha? Why Are They Significant for Muslims? Once a year, large numbers of Muslim pilgrims converging on Saudi Arabia unite in religious rituals and ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered an ancient sculptor's workshop which may provide a rare glimpse into what daily life was like during the Hellenistic period. Teams found the 3,000-year-old ...

Communally, the Hajj unites Muslims of diverse races, ethnicities, languages and economic classes from around the world in performing religious rituals and acts of worshipping God at the same time ...