Uncover the timeless beauty of But Thap Pagoda, home to Vietnam’s finest wooden sculptures and centuries-old artifacts.

For architect Shereen Amendra, the fascination of the Mahathupa (the original Pali name which she prefers) began when she was a teenager. Her mother Doreen Alles’s copy of the Mahavamsa much-thumbed ...

The country’s largest blaze on record has left 27 dead and destroyed heritage sites, including two 1,000-year-old temples.

The death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand passed 1,000 on Saturday, as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings in a des ...

The death toll rose to 2,719 four days after the severe earthquake that hit Myanmar, the ruling military junta said in an update on Tuesday.However, junta leader Min Aung Hlaing emphasized that the ...

Ask Lookout is Lookout's own forum for investigating and exploring the questions that locals might wonder about: Was the "Cement Ship" a party boat? What's the story with the "door to nowhere" on ...

The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero soon after the atomic bombing to provide emotional support for survivors, is finally coming home after disappearing for ...

The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy rocks at the Tianti Mountain, separated by a dam in the Huangyang River Reservoir in Wuwei, Gansu province. SHEN LONGQUAN/FOR CHINA DAILY ...