Demons are simply fallen angels. That is the common assumption, repeated so often that it feels settled. Yet one of the most unsettling traditions in ancient Jewish thought says something very ...

On October 25th this year, the Vatican released a document that had remained in its secret archives for seven hundred years. It is the report of the official Church investigation into the activities ...

A remarkable 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck discovered off the coast of Croatia has revealed an unprecedented story of ancient maritime maintenance. The Ilovik-Paržine 1 wreck, which sank during the ...

An international team of researchers led by the University of Glasgow has achieved a remarkable breakthrough in biblical scholarship, successfully recovering 42 lost pages from Codex H, one of the ...

The Emerald Tablet is said to be a tablet of emerald or green stone inscribed with the secrets of the universe. The source of the original Emerald Tablet is unclear; hence it is surrounded by legends.

Puma Punku is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in Bolivia that is steeped in wonder and mystery. The architecture found in the ruins astounds archaeologists and historians and has inspired advanced ...

When we think of fairies many of the more popular tales tend to have an almost playful nature but it would be wrong to assume that this is means that fairies are always benign. Many accounts within ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

The legends describe the mysterious moon-eyed people as being entirely pale-skinned, heavily bearded, and possessing uniquely shaped eyes that were extremely sensitive to sunlight. Because the bright ...

Today, the thought of infanticide – the intentional killing of infants – fills us with horror, but in many ancient societies, not only was this practice permitted, it was considered a regular fact of ...

The Stone Age is the longest period of human history, lasting from 2.6 million years ago to about 5,000 years ago. It is also the period of human history that is the least well known relative to later ...

In ancient Chinese astronomy, the sky ecliptic was divided into four sections. Each of these sections contained seven mansions, and together they formed the 28 Mansions. The 28 Mansions may be ...