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 to ...

Widely believed to be the oldest temple in the world, Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Türkiye dates back a whopping 12,000 years ...

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The fact remains that the oldest ‘known’ ruler was Puskara ... When Pushkara Sarin came to power his religion was Vedic, probably a local variation of the emerging deity-based faiths.

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She has vowed to continue cutting hair until the age of 110. Shitsui Hakoishi, 108, poses for a photo with a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing her as the world’s oldest female barber, at ...

For decades, social scientists, demographers and Christians themselves have told a familiar story about the state of Christianity in the United States: The country was rapidly secularizing. The ...

Comparing the youngest and oldest groups in the poll, 51% of those born in the 1940s or earlier who, as children, attended religious services weekly and considered religion very important have the ...

Having seen its 135th birthday last month, Spokane’s Calvary Baptist Church is known as the oldest Black church in Washington. Since its founding in 1890 – two months after Washington attained ...

The youngest adults are also three times more likely than the oldest group to be religiously unaffiliated. “These kinds of generational differences are a big part of what’s driven the long-term ...