Archaeologists just dug up the 700-year-old life-sized stone head of King Edward II in the ruins of a medieval abbey. "The ...

While direct offerings on Okinoshima Island ceased in the 9th century AD, the worship of the Island continued in the form of worshipping the Three Female Deities of Munakata at three distinct worship ...

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Looting the templesHernando Pizarro supervises removal of treasure from the Pachacamac Temple in a 17th-century engraving from Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas’s Décadas. AKG/Album Meanwhile ...

A British metal detectorist discovered a gold band with an engraved date-of-death in Norfolk.

Fly-whisks are used ritually to fan temple idols and sacred objects such as the Sikh holy book in gurudwaras, and are a ...

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Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The original Hellblade was a timed console exclusive for the PS4 in ...

From Art Deco, Art Nouveau and 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group. Image credits: Archeology and art What makes archaeology even more fascinating is how multidisciplinary it truly is. It draws from ...

The bronze ring has been dated to be from the 2nd or 3rd century AD, when the Israeli region was part of the Province of Syria Palaestina under the Roman Empire. "During the walk, I noticed a ...

The place today looks much as it must have in the summer of 1792: a row of sandstone facades, neat and formal as an 18th-century engraving, sloping gently toward the Luxembourg Palace. In a third ...

How many properties in Wales feature in the Doomsday Book and can boast connections to a 9th Century King of Wales? Or, for that matter, have played a direct role in the English Civil War ...