The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Growing up on the Indonesian island of Java in the 1970s, Dewi Kanti practiced an ancient form of indigenous traditional beliefs whose origins predate the arrivals of Christianity ...
MEXICO CITY, May 26 (Reuters) - A massive stone sculpture carved by Olmec artists more than 2,000 years ago that evokes ancient religious beliefs has returned to Mexico after decades in the United ...
In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...
Mahtab Dastur is an 18-year-old student at Rice University in Houston. In one of the most culturally diverse metros in the country, Dastur also happens to be the only undergraduate practicing the ...
ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...
Once the faith of millions, a small but devoted number of adherents in Asia and North America keep the flame of faith burning. Farzin Yezishne, a Zoroastrian mobed (priest), performs a blessing ...
Everything you need to know about the targeted minority group — -- The Yazidis are a ethnic minority in Iraq made up mostly of ethnic Kurds and isolated from the rest of the population due to ...