Five iron shackles uncovered at a 2,300-year-old Celtic settlement in Allonnes, western France. The restraints, discovered ...

Excavations at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu have uncovered a ritual pit more than eight feet deep, filled with 300 ...

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A 3,800-year-old ritual offering found at Peñico in Peru reveals how Caral civilization, symbols and trade networks survived.

"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...

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What does it mean to make a ritual object? What does it mean to make a queer ritual object? How might personal experience mold the interpretation and use of ritual objects? Explore those questions ...

To prepare for their first Passover seders, Zoe Scheffy, Lesley Frost and Joanna Brichetto drew on their creative instincts: Scheffy pulled out her knitting needles; Frost gathered scraps of felt, ...

For a religion that has never been static, Judaism has been utilizing many of the same outdated, unchanging ritual objects for what seems like eternity. Judaica has never kept pace with Judaism’s ever ...