The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and ...

The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site [Getty Images] ...

India is home to a plethora of grand temples, each more intricately constructed than the last. Built over centuries ago, they stood as testaments to the strength and grandiosity of the very empires ...

Yet that year, on the other side of the globe, an emperor from southern India was preparing to build the world's most colossal temple. Completed just 10 years later ... By the standards of the ...