The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 1,500-year-old baptistery in Vence, France, revealing insights into early Christian ...

Women and their access to places of worship has been restricted or even completely denied in all ancient religions ...

Summary "This book is a history of religious life in the Ancient Near East from the beginnings of agriculture to Alexander the Great's invasion in the 300s BCE. Daniel C. Snell traces key developments ...

Religion played a key role in the construction of the ancient Greek polis, the city-state, through the formation of the civic ...

King Celeus of Eleusis was the first man to learn goddess Demeter’s sacred rites, shaping the Eleusinian Mysteries and ...

(The Conversation) — Broken mirrors can be associated with bad luck, but for the ancient Maya, a cracked mirror was often desirable.

The discovery of coins with identical designs at archaeological sites across southeast Asia indicates that there were ancient ...