Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Selection of coins and jewelry from Hezingen Nordic archeological site (Credit: Jan-Willem de Kort, et al.) An early medieval ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Netflix’s new psychological thriller Unchosen might be a fictional tale about a young woman caught up in a reclusive cult.

It is almost impossible to imagine the realities endured by victims of ritual abuse: multiple abusers with systematic motives coordinated with the sole purpose of perpetrating and maintaining a cycle ...

Archaeologists have discovered a medieval underground tunnel running beneath a German village, which was the likely site of cult rituals. Researchers stumbled upon the tunnel during excavations that ...