New study explores how sleep therapy and rituals shaped ancient Greek medicine and influenced modern healing practices.

Throughout history, multiple ancient civilizations practiced the horrifying ritual of burying people alive. Victims included servants, prisoners, children, and religious sacrifices offered to gods or ...

Modern ideological sacrifice does not look like ancient pagan altars. It hides itself behind therapeutic language, ...

Archaeologists in Peru found 1,200-year-old hairless dog remains, revealing new clues about life in the ancient Wari Empire.

Science has replaced superstition. Technology has liberated humanity from primitive explanations about spirits, transcendence ...

A Canadian tourist was killed, and 13 others were injured — including several Americans — after a crazed gunman held a group of people hostage atop a pyramid at Mexico’s famous Teotihuacan ruins. The ...

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ reimagines the classic horror icon as a demonic entity contained by the body it possesses—here’s the twist ending, explained.

A century ago, scientists began to study enigmatic Nasca geoglyphs in Peru. Thanks to AI, the known number has nearly doubled ...

In 1978, utility workers in Mexico City unearthed the massive Coyolxauhqui Stone, a significant Aztec artefact. This ...

The intricate motif, at first glance a tangle of curving lines, conceals two animal figures in profile facing each other along the upper and lower edges. Kristoffersen noted that "it is possible that ...

Ancient Greeks and ancient Hindus learned much from each other from philosophy and mythology to medicine and surgery.