In biblical times, Shavuot was an agricultural festival, when Israelites would bring harvest offerings to the temple. Today, it's primarily commemorated ... Shavuot falls on the 6th of Sivan on the ...

How do you conserve an incomparable set of murals that have accumulated more than 80 years’ worth of soot, salt and other ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost ...

A part of Sacramento with relatively little vertical development has a proposal for a three-story education project. Group of ...

In 113-degree heat, thousands of Hindus in Pakistan make a grueling trek that is an act of spiritual devotion and cultural ...

TORRANCE, CA – On the evening of August 19, the Levy Adult Center in Torrance transformed into a vibrant tapestry of colors and cultures as the Sri Panchamukha Hanuman Temple played host to the ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

The arrest of eight persons including the priest of the Vedukkunaari Aadhi Sivan temple in Vavuniya for worshiping at the sacred site on Mahashivratri Day (March 8) figured in Parliament today. A ...

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA – In a surprise Diwali visit to the Bharatiya Temple in Montgomery Township on October 31, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz met with Neil Makhija, Montgomery County Commissioner and ...

In biblical times, Shavuot was an agricultural festival, when Israelites would bring harvest offerings to the temple ... Shavuot falls on the 6th of Sivan on the Jewish calendar, which reckons ...

Last month in Points of Significance, we showed how samples are used to estimate population statistics. We emphasized that, because of chance, our estimates had an uncertainty. This month we focus ...