(Mainichi/Yasuhiro Okawa) NARA -- A new building inspired by an ancient Japan palace was recently completed here at Manyo Botanical Garden on the grounds of the iconic Kasugataisha Shrine ...

A guardian deity of water with miraculous virtue worshipped since ancient times. The shrine has been worshipped for better luck marriage by countless people through the ages, including nobles.

Ash has been used for millennia in concrete. Ancient Romans used volcanic ash, and over the past century or so, state transportation departments have turned to fly ash from coal plants.

At the edge of Barrio Viejo, a half-mile south of downtown Tucson, lies the nation’s only Catholic shrine dedicated to a sinner instead of a saint ... some built of timber framing, resting atop ...

Koraput/Nandapur: When people across the globe were celebrating the ‘World Heritage Day’ Friday, residents of Kecha village ...

Deipnosophistae is a work by Athenaeus, written around 200 CE, about well-read people philosophizing at the dinner table and enjoying good food and drink. The title is a combination of two words: ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled new findings about the enigmatic Tomb I, known as the Tomb of Persephone, located in the Great Tumulus of Vergina, Greece. This monument, considered ...