Though Stonehenge has been widely known for thousands of years, Germany's "Ringheiligtum Pömmelte," the Ring Sanctuary of ...

The name Iphigenia has been synonymous with ancient Greek tragedy and mythology, as well as the concept of sacrifice, for millennia.

A group of archaeologists unearthed the remains of a pregnant woman and a fetus who died approximately 1,200 years ago, presumed to be a ritual human sacrifice in prehistoric Ecuador. The woman's ...

A pregnant woman's dismembered remains from over 1,000 years ago, along with unusual burial artifacts spanning multiple cultures, point to a possible ritual sacrifice in coastal Ecuador ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

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A pregnant woman's dismembered remains from over 1,000 years ago, along with unusual burial artifacts spanning multiple cultures, point to a possible ritual sacrifice in coastal Ecuador Drawing of ...

The burial of a young woman, possibly as young as 17, was identified as “burial 10” and dated to between 771 and 953 A.D., ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient ...

Dec. 4, 2024 — A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day ... How Did Humans and Dogs ...