German archaeologists have discovered new insights into Bavaria's Roman past from an ancient buried temple where Roman legionaries once worshipped the sun god Mithras. During recent excavations in ...

During recent excavations in Regensburg’s old town, German archaeologists uncovered a temple dedicated to the god Mithras. Because the building was originally constructed in wood, only a few ...

Lord, have mercy. In certain Lenten services this invocation is repeated forty times while the body bends down and rises ...

Birkat Hagomel is, fundamentally, a prayer of thanksgiving.

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...

Florida executed Michael King by lethal injection March 17 at Florida State Prison near Starke, for the 2008 Sarasota County kidnapping and murder of Denise Amber Lee. King was pronounced dead at 6:13 ...

In a study published in the journal Iran, researcher Gad Barnea has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Zoroastrian religious practices were more prevalent and left a deeper imprint on surrounding ...

Today, the scarab remains a focus of popular devotion through a tourist tradition: people circle it - often seven times - seeking luck, love, or a wish fulfilled, echoing (in a modern, secular form) ...

In Russia, signs and beliefs have been given special importance since ancient times. They were used to determine when to ...