It's less a cave than a 98-foot-tall (30m) building hewn into the ground, built by the removal of roughly 200,000 tonnes of rock. Although visitors are limited – as a sacred site ... on the ...

The ancient Minoan palace of Zominthos on Crete, located at a height of 1,200 meters, shows that Minoans were highlanders too ...

Sacred springs and rivers throughout Ancient Greece were revered as sources of divine power, associated with healing, ...

These stunning limestone caves, believed to be around 400 million years old, are home not only to sacred Hindu temples but also mischievous, phone-stealing monkeys and hidden colonies of bats.

Crete has launched a tourism campaign to lure more visitors to its sunny coasts and beautiful beaches. The Greek island is known for it's beautiful landscapes. In fact, Elafonissi Beach was just ...

Within the caves, the monochrome lifelessness of the desert gave way to an exuberance of color and movement. Thousands of Buddhas in every hue radiated across the grotto walls, their robes ...

Scientists found an aquatic creature with skin instead of eyes in a cave of Indonesia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Wibowo, Willyanto, Dharmayanthi, Rahmadi and ...

Acclaimed director Mohammad Rasoulof filmed The Seed of The Sacred Fig in defiance of Iran’s strict filmmaking laws. It’s earned him an Oscar nomination — and a prison sentence. Faced with a ...