A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

Living Traditions will run from May 22 until October 19, 2025, in the Sainsbury Exhibition Gallery at the British Museum.

It was supposed to stop with Ayodhya. But Kashi, Mathura, Sambhal and a flurry of other mandir-masjid disputes signal a new ...

The irresistible persona of the barefoot genius whose work ‘Gram Yatra’ (1954) hit the hammer for $13.7 million at a recent ...

A Pokémon is more than its first impression, as fans quickly learn when they dig in deep to a Fire-type Pokémon's origins.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient ... gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue of Artemis.

A woman out for an evening stroll along the beach at Pedda Rushikonda on India's eastern coast recently stumbled upon a ...

An endowment covered the library’s operational expenses in ancient times, as well as annual commemorations on Celsus’ birthday, including the wreathing of the busts and statues and the ...

this ancient bacterial disease, continues to ravage. India still contributes to about 25% of the world’s TB burden, with, as of 2023, 27 lakh new cases and 3.2 lakh deaths -- a staggering figure ...