In a study published in Heritage Science, a team led by Prof. Zhang Pengchang from the Xi'an Institute of Optics and ...

28,787 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?28,787 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others? “He’s getting red ...

A dozen shamans from various parts of Peru gathered on Lima's San Cristobal hill on Friday to deliver their predictions for the year and pray for peace and harmony. (AP Video by Mauricio Muñoz ...

It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some parts of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native American ...

a cactus and sacred plant medicine utilized in ceremony by members of the Native American Church, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) Members of the Indigenous ...

By Holland Cotter The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, in these darkest days of midwinter, one of the city’s spiritual hot spots, thanks to the harmonic convergence of two outstanding and very ...

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in ... An example, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was created for a priest named Amenhotep. The flask contains ...

As evening falls on Christmas Eve, and children in the UK look to the skies for a glimpse of reindeer… the eyes of millions of Catholics will be on Pope Francis in Rome, where the opening of a 'sacred ...

An ancient well, sealed for many years but containing ... the larger Naimisharanya Tirth in Sitapur district, one of the 68 sacred pilgrimages in India. “This location houses Baba Kshema Nath ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...

Even after intense analysis, the ancient language on the so-called Bashplemi tablet still evades researchers. Fishermen in Dmanisi, Georgia discovered the tablet in Lake Bashplemi in 2021.

Why are so many great artists drawn to making art about a holiday that isn’t ... but in the separate Institute of Sacred Music. The discipline of singing this music is taught as its own kind ...