In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple ... s interior. A painted relief on a column ...

Even then no one imagined that within a short span of 32 years a grand temple would be erected on the same site. This was the logical culmination of a protracted legal and social battle.

The century-old Xiahai Chenghuang Temple is host to statues of the City God, his wife, the Chinese Cupid, and 600 other deities. The temple has the highest statue density in Taiwan. Tradition has it ...