Philadelphia: During Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the United States on Saturday, 297 antiquities that had been ...

The pieces are part of the heads of Naga, archaeologists said, a guardian deity thought to have sheltered the Buddha from ...

Located in Kansai, Nara is considered to be the oldest city in Japan. It was the country's first permanent capital and played ...

With their heads removed and bodies broken into pieces to be sold around the world, Buddhist statues taken from sacred ...

Emerging from the head of the world's tallest bronze Buddha and climbing down to its right ear, two specialist cleaners gave the imposing Japanese statue an annual spruce up Monday to help it look its ...

Emerging from the head of the world's tallest bronze Buddha and climbing down to its right ear, two specialist cleaners gave the imposing Japanese statue an annual spruce up Monday to help it look ...

On Monday they carried rope and buckets of water up ladders to the very top of the Buddha, which is three times as tall as the Statue of Liberty ... important place for Japanese Buddhism.

Discovered in Egypt in 1799, the Rosetta Stone was crucial in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. After the British defeated the French in Egypt, they took possession of the artefact. Despite calls ...

Emerging from the head of the world's tallest bronze Buddha and climbing down to its right ear, two specialist cleaners gave the imposing Japanese statue an annual spruce up to help it look its ...