The disturbing imagery of blood sacrifice may seem alien to modern life, but its meaning remains central to an understanding ...

Could one of the Bible’s most famous stories preserve a distant memory of a real religious upheaval in ancient Egypt? This source explores a controversial theory connecting Pharaoh Akhenaten’s ...

We love to dress as our favorite scary creatures for Halloween. But where did these Halloween monsters come from, anyway?

A community of ethical inquiry is not for contrarians or conspiracists. Rather, it is a place where the inquisitive come to explore life’s big questions, challenge one another and maybe change their ...

Anyone, regardless of their religious background or lack thereof, who openly wishes to explore this aspect of Christianity is welcome.

For thousands of years, the ancient Egyptian civilization cultivated a rich, diverse network of cultural, socioeconomic, and ...

Priestess of the moon god and daughter of Sargon the Great, Enheduanna amassed political power and waged war with her honeyed words.

A mysterious theory suggests centuries old shrines form an alignment stretching from remote Atlantic locations to Symi in the ...

Why did so many ancient civilizations build pyramids despite having no contact with one another? The answer seem to be the ...

The mystical makes sense on these islands. It’s in the maps, the land. The sweeping cliffs and shifting sea — navy, royal, crystalline — “make belief believable,” as Flannery O’Connor once wrote. And ...

Archaeologists just found burned wooden beams in Jerusalem dating to the Babylonian destruction described in 2 Kings 25 It s ...