A hilltop site in Milan, Ohio, located on a bluff overlooking the Huron River, was likely a prehistoric ceremonial site for "Early Woodland" people 2,300 years ago. (Brian Redmond, Cleveland Museum of ...

They’re inscribing something about their cosmology, their belief systems, into the earth itself in a very dramatic way,” said ...

In Australian Aboriginal cultures, the night sky is a book full of ancient stories illustrated with constellations unfamiliar to most North Americans. And for Aborigines, the figures represented by ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Researchers in Texas have uncovered ancient murals hidden in the limestone shelters of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Painted ...

When the Nag Hammadi codices were discovered in Egypt in 1945, the world gained access to a body of writings that challenged some of the most deeply rooted assumptions in Western religion. Among these ...

IN THE beginning, there was light. Then, perhaps, a point of darkness. More dark spots appeared, the light circling them before falling in like water down a drain. These would have been our universe’s ...

By Ben BRAKO For centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial ...

In the spring of 1900, a group of Greek sponge divers, blown off course by a storm in the Aegean, stumbled upon the wreck of an ancient Roman ship loaded with treasure that had sunk more than 2,000 ...

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