The Orphic Cult of Ancient Greece offered a radical promise of afterlife salvation, reincarnation, and divine escape from the ...

Five small terracotta figurines uncovered at the ancient site of Tatarlı Höyük in southern Türkiye are offering a rare look at how motherhood, childcare, and protective beliefs shaped domestic life in ...

The Dionysian fresco, dubbed the "house of Thiasos" by archaeologists, was unearthed from a banquet hall amid excavations to Insula 10 Regio IX in Pompeii. (all images courtesy Parco Archeologico di ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A landslide in Norway around 800 B.C. likely covered a cult site that archaeologists have finally uncovered 2,800 years later. An excavation working ...

A metal detectorist discovered ancient gold coins in the Netherlands that turned out to be a cult ritual offering. Experts believe the money left at the location was “devil’s money,” an offering to ...

A professor at the University of South Florida (USF) analyzed a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mug and discovered that the ancient object once held a psychedelic concoction used in a magical ritual. The mug ...

Archaeologists knew all about the roughly 120 tombs dating to the 7th to 6th centuries B.C. housed on a hillside in Tuscany, Italy. But what they didn’t know—until a recent discovery—was that located ...

Ritual artifacts belonging to the Canaanites, an ancient people referenced in the Old Testament, were recently found in Israel — along with a 5,000-year-old winepress. The Israel Antiquities Authority ...