cultural heritage

In a bold fusion of tradition and technology, the Vatican and Microsoft have teamed up to transform religious education by launching an innovative interactive game that brings the storied halls of St. Peter’s Basilica into the digital realm. Designed to capture the imagination of students...

Govind Devji Temple’s Unique Holi Guidelines: Tradition Over Trend In Jaipur’s historic Govind Devji Temple, Holi celebrations are taking an unprecedented turn. This year, temple administrators have instituted strict regulations that ban video recording, creating reels, and even the use of...

In the early hours of March 13, a massive blaze swept through Gurugram’s once-iconic Kingdom of Dreams in Sector 29, leaving behind a scene of significant destruction—and thankfully, no casualties. The incident, which saw more than six fire engines racing to contain the flames, has sent...

Microsoft Azure's Cloud Cultures initiative has returned for its third season, and it's shaping up to be the most insightful yet. Leaders from 12 countries share their unique approaches to tackling some of the world's thornier issues by blending cultural heritage with cutting-edge technology...

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For the past six months that they’ve been developing their first-ever video game, the Big Super Happy Fun Fun team knew pretty much from the get-go that their hometown of New Orleans needed to play a major part in it. This vibrant city – synonymous with multicultural food, music and...

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A Russian artist in Siberia has spent a small personal fortune on over a thousand pearls for a religious painting he has made for the Queen. Clad in embroidered robes, Adam and Eve sit in thrones on a suspended Garden of Eden in Anatoly Pastyrev's painting, which is crowned by a Russian...

Modern technology may be the key to unlock hidden secrets about an ancient monument: Stonehenge. Researchers are using lasers to scan the nearly three dozen stones, or megaliths, that make up the famous circular complex on the Salisbury Plain of southern England. Stonehenge in High...

Padma Choling, the Chinese-appointed governor of Tibet, said Monday during a break at the Chinese Parliament meeting that the Dalai Lama, the nation's highest-ranking spiritual leader, would not be allowed to choose his successor. Instead he maintained that Tibetan religious and historical...

Although the Irish legend of leprechauns is probably just a load of blarney, there's scientific evidence suggesting that the fabled stories of giants living on the Emerald Isle aren't just tall tales. According to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine, it seems that Northern Ireland...

President Yoweri Museveni says he might release an album after a rap he performed became a smash hit on Uganda's radio stations and in its nightclubs. "I was very happy with the reaction of the youth because that means they are very thirsty for the music of their ancestors," the 67-year-old...

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and for Dallas-based music historian Bucks Burnett, his treasure is 8-tracks. Burnett, a lifelong music collector, has been hunting and gathering 8-track tapes since 1988, which just happens to be the year they were finally phased out of use...

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan gave the Peace Museum a chance -- and now she wants John Lennon's guitar back. The state's top prosecutor sued the small and financially troubled Chicago museum in Cook County Court on Feb. 8 to turn over an acoustic guitar that belonged to the former...

It may be the most legendary monument to the internet’s 15 megabytes of fame – or unintentional infamy: eight years ago, private footage of a heavy-set teenager, spinning nearly uncontrollably while wielding an imaginary-lightsaber, as if in an audition tape for Star Wars, was uploaded to the...