A scholar of Buddhism explains why creating a digital afterlife for loved ones may cause us to miss critical moments for genuine transformation and connection.

After global backlash to their planned sale at Sotheby's, the sacred Piprahwa Buddha relics have been repatriated to India ...

These artworks might be ancient but they still form a major part of the everyday lives of those who practice Hinduism, ...

India has recovered a set of relics linked to early Buddhism more than a century after they were removed from the country ...

It’s just before 6 p.m. on a Tuesday at the Oakmont Carnegie Library. In the basement’s Oak Room, a dozen Pittsburghers are already seated ...

Tucked away in storage at a Berlin museum, a modest wooden shrine had gone largely unstudied for decades. It looked ordinary ...

The practice of putting a “black dot” or “Kala tika” on a baby’s forehead is quite a familiar sight in many Indian families—a tiny black dot, carefully placed by a mother’s loving ...

Greek island hotels for a summer escape - From a village-like outpost in Corfu arranged around an 18th olive oil mill to a peninsula in Crete, these are the ultimate Greek island idylls ...

During this period of ancient Egyptian history, archaeological evidence has suggested trade and cultural connections existed with the Fertile Crescent—an area of West Asia encompassing modern ...

As part of our Sense of Place: Rome series, Contestabile performs as his one-man blues project, Black Snake Moan.

The key to detecting these ancient objects, a new paper proposes, lies in Hawking radiation, a phenomenon where all black holes emit radiation inversely proportional to their mass.

This object became known as the Black Knight Satellite. The signals coming from the Black Knight Satellite have been decoded. And if the translation is correct, it's been watching us for 13,000 years.