Buried at the Hezingen site, researchers discovered 25 gold coins, as well as gold pendants and a fragment of a silver ...

Archaeologists recently stumbled across a medieval pagan cult site in the Netherlands ... meaning there was not one specific god or deity worshipped by believers, and practices varied by location ...

The devotees rise before dawn. They purify themselves. Their ritual cleansing shower eliminates odors that might offend their quarry. Then they don their curated clothing treated not with ashes but ...

The second book of Kings describes Hezekiah’s suppression of pagan places of worship, or “high places.” It outlines how he “removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones” and “did ...

An ancient pagan worship place ... standing stone that was used in ancient cultures as a representation of a god) worship. Notably, the complex went out of use in the mid-eighth century BCE ...

Creation legends and folk tales swirl like snow and leaves across the protected landscapes of Japan. This selection of four ...

In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it. At the time, researchers believed that the male ...

In fantasy manhwa, gods are often used for world-building or conflict, with many depicted as unseen influencers. Gods can be integral parts of the plot in some manhwa, interacting directly as ...

"Our ancestors saw wetlands as mystical places where they could connect with their gods and the Otherworld." A 1,600-year-old ...

I’ve often said that the best deer rifle is the one you already own. That rifle, if not an actual treasure, has one quality that no other firearm can match — the experiences and memories it helped ...

What are the best god games on PC? Whether you’re a benevolent deity, carefully managing a virtual world so that everyone can live in comfort and harmony, or an agent of chaos who has gone mad ...