The commercialization of self-care has created a distance between people and authentic healing traditions. Yet within African ...

Discover the sacred plants and flowers of ancient MENA civilizations and their deep connections to mythology, fertility, and ...

Ancient 2,000-year-old sword discovered in Poland’s Jura region Believed to belong to a Vandal warrior, deliberately broken in burial Undergoing research before being displayed at Mokra Museum ...

The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, ...

Travel insurance specialists InsureandGo, have conducted extensive research into how superstitions vary around the globe, to ...

But for one evening in January, modern farming techniques are set aside for an ancient ritual called “wassailing,” where the coming year’s apple crop is blessed, evil spirits are chased away ...

Antiquity. A network of ancient parallel ceremonial roads has been discovered at the Gasco archaeological site in New Mexico, south of the Chaco Canyon. The roads are considered to be more than just ...

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Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes Sonja Anderson A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy ...

Despite (sometimes valid) stereotypes of Africa as a continent where women are often politically and socially marginalized, ...

In the quintessentially British setting of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, judges adorned in red robes and white gloves assembled for the Trial of the Pyx, a ceremony that has been safeguarding ...