In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

Workers at the Gounsa Temple tried to move valuable artefacts and cover up Buddhist statues. A historic Buddhist temple burned to the ground and a UNESCO-listed village was ordered to evacuate as ...

Many of the buildings at the temple complex, first built by monks in the year 681, burned to the ground this week as South Korea’s largest wildfire ever swept through forests and towns ...

Hours later, an official at the Korea Heritage Service told AFP that the temple had been burnt down. "It is very heartbreaking and painful to see the precious temples that are over a thousand ...

Join our Whatsapp channel UISEONG: Residents of a Unesco-listed village were ordered to evacuate while a historic Buddhist temple was burned to the ground on Tuesday as South Korea scrambled to ...

UISEONG, (South Korea): Inhabitants of a Unesco-listed village were ordered to evacuate while a historic Buddhist temple was burned to the ground as South Korea scrambled to contain worsening ...

Early in the morning, workers at the Gounsa Temple, which was more than a thousand years old, were attempting to move valuable artefacts and cover up Buddhist statues to protect them from possible ...

Korea's World Heritage site, under high threat of wildfire spreading fast on strong winds with embers Wildfires in North Gyeongsang Province razed an ancient temple ... who had burned to death.