Some of the main transgressions the Portuguese Inquisition judged people on included practicing Judaism, Protestantism, Islam, or witchcraft; bigamy; sodomy; and other blasphemies. They used ...

Ninety-five standing stones, some engraved to represent people whose faces have suns for ... gotten treasures and views over the city and ancient-aqueduct-sporting countryside.

Portuguese archaeologist Maria da Conceição Lopes believes ancient knowledge can save modern desert communities facing ...

AN ANCIENT city that was abandoned in the 18th ... It is understood that the Portuguese people established the settlement inside the Amazon rainforest somewhere around the 16th century when ...

Portuguese missionaries later destroyed most of the ancient church writings ... Today about seven million people, a fifth of Kerala’s population, call themselves St. Thomas Christians after ...

Rick Lagina has enjoyed exploring Portuguese churches linked to the ... set out to examine two churches associated with the ancient medieval Order of the Templar Knights, where they thought ...

The mikvahs were enclosed in a room whose ceiling featured an ancient fresco of flowers, Publico reported. The fresco was likely painted in the 16th century, before the Portuguese Inquisition sent ...

This young man is performing Devostha, an ancient ritual dating back to the Portuguese period that is believed to exorcise the land of malevolent spirits. Although the Malayalam version of ...

Soon after, with his head bowed and eyes shut, Godson begins to chant an ancient prayer ... old prayer ritual brought to Kochi by the Portuguese. As he chants the haunting hymn aloud, the men ...