This World Water Day, we explore India’s vast surface water network, which supports agriculture, drinking water supply, and ...

On Kartik Purnima, a ritual bath at prime pilgrimage places is prescribed ... Devotees perform a sacred bath in the Pushkar Lake to seek salvation. Circling the three pushkars on this day is believed ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

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India's Kumbh Mela festival wraps up Wednesday, with final ritual river bathing ceremonies ending six weeks of celebration that organisers say have been attended by hundreds of millions of devotees.

Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ritual bath outside of the Middle East, along with an oil lamp decorated with a menorah dated ...

Archaeologists identified it as an ancient Jewish ritual bath, known as a mikveh, dating back at least 1,400 years. A view into the ancient Jewish ritual bath as seen during excavations.

and while some camped and waited patiently to take the dip at 'Brahma Muhurt', scores of them performed the bathing rituals much before the appointed time.

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical region of Israel and the surrounding area. The “mikveh,” used by ...