This is just one piece of the extraordinary history of the temple ... to Surya, the Sun God, and symbolised his daily passage across the heavens, as described in ancient Hindu texts.

Built by the ancient Inca, the labyrinth – or Chincana – radiates outwards from the Temple of the Sun, extending for more than a mile towards a fortress on the edge of the city. The discovery ...

He has spent the past three decades—almost all of his professional ... 213-foot-tall Temple of the Sun. Clemency Coggins, a professor emerita of archaeology and art history at Boston University ...

Archaeologists found the remains of three children under the age of four alongside the artifact — suggesting that it was once ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple ... of the sun god Ra to his divine power.

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

New research says that a rare solar eclipse in 2471 B.C. may have sparked ancient Egypt's surprising shift away from sun ...

When seven archaeologists find an ancient Inca temple, they become victims of an ancient curse. Back in Europe, one by one they fall into a deep sleep and only once a day, all at the same time ...

For the Israelis, that history begins 3,000 years ago, when the Temple ... of ancient Israel, breached the walls of Jebus around 1000 B.C. David then built a palace nearby and created his capital ...