At every temple in South India, the aarti for the deity is performed by burning a piece of camphor on a platter. Who knew ...

The Five Hundred, meeting him in a temple, honoured him with the title of ‘Enemy-Chaser’ and relieved him of membership fees, ceremonially offering him food and betel leaves just as a king would do ...

The Coldplay frontman and his longtime love visited Mumbai's Babulnath Temple before the band played its first-ever stadium show in India Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site [Getty Images] ...

It's 1000 CE - the heart of the Middle Ages. Europe is in flux. The powerful nations we know today - like Norman-ruled England and the fragmented territories that will go on to become France - do ...

The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and culture.

The loot of conquest was lavished on his great imperial temple, known today as the Brihadishvara. In addition to its precious treasures, the great temple received 5,000 tonnes of rice annually, from ...

The Brihadishvara Temple at Thanjavur is still one of the most stupendous monuments ever built in India. While often seen primarily as a religious monument, its inscriptions also reveal a Chola court ...