From its inception, ancient Egypt was defined by its religious beliefs. Worship of all powerful deities was part of the daily life, and ancient Egyptians believed that when they died they would enjoy ...

Buddha charm or Buddhist pendant is among most popular spiritual ornaments because it carries significant meaning. Buddha charms can be placed in your home, car, purse, clothing, carried as key rings ...

Wood is a wonderful material. In part, this is because it possesses a natural sense of warmth, which makes it well-suited for a wide range of settings. However, it should be noted that wood is ...

Gautama Buddha is an important figure in a wide range of places for many reasons. For example, most people should familiar with Buddha because of his founding of the Buddhist faith, though his exact ...

The unicorn is a rather curious creatures with a lot of interesting stories told about it. For example, a Greek merchant named Cosmas Indicopleustes claimed that the unicorn's incredible power ...

Conspiracy theorists have long examined Leonardo da Vinci’s works for hidden meanings and most of these conspiracy theories rest on hidden secrets or codes. Perhaps we’ve all been fooled into ...

There is widespread interest in geoglyphs, which are the huge designs produced upon the ground by a wide range of cultures in different times and places. After all, it can be difficult for modern ...

The practice of excavating clusters of rooms or niches into the sides of cliffs and mountains to create cave temples originated in India and spread with Buddhism via Central Asia to China.  Buddhist ...

The symbolic meaning behind a skull has evolved over the years and recently it’s morphed into a “cool” emblem tattooed on forearms, splashed across t-shirts, and painted on to printed, decorative ...

Can a painting possibly be the cause of paranormal activity? What first comes to your mind when you think of the word 'haunted'? Your mind probably automatically conjures up images of foggy, moonlit ...

Aliens visited the Earth in the Past - How true is this? Do aliens really exist? Well, there is no official proof for the existence of aliens yet. However, conspiracy theorists suggest that some ...

Novelists have described the gothic cathedral of Milan as “a curious marble mountain” and a “glorious structure in all its majesty and beauty”. It is not only the symbol of Milan, but also the ...

Pockmarked with the remnants of early space exploration, the moon now plays second fiddle to Mars as a potential destination. But a new project aims to revisit the lunar landscape - by rocketing a ...

Ancient oil paintings discovered in famed Afghan Caves by international team of researchers dated to around the 7th century A.D., predate the origins of similar sophisticated painting techniques in ...

These stunning pictures of Slavic mythological characters were created by a Russian artist from Yoshkar-Ola in the Mari El Republic in Russia’s eastern region. Born in 1975, Igor Ozhiganov studied ...