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 ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

Residents of a UNESCO-listed village were ordered to evacuate while a historic Buddhist temple was burned to the ground Tuesday as South Korea scrambled to contain worsening wildfires. Blazes ...

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 ...