Archaeologists have excavated three c. 3,000–2,400-year-old ritual structures in Shandong Province, China, indicating that the origins of a shared Chinese cultural identity lie in ceremonial ...

The rules have all changed now. We are no longer bound by societal expectations about our religious devotions. Only decades ago, any American who didn’t belong to a church got a side-eye from the rest ...

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Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

Skeletons found at Pacopampa, the site of an ancient Andean civilization in Peru, show signs of ritual violence. Archaeologists study violence to better understand how people in ancient societies ...

There are two specific rituals in the NHL that lets everyone know who the starting goalie is on a given day. One of them is leaving the ice first in the morning, the second is getting on the ice first ...

In an unusual and widely debated ritual, a Thai family conducted a ceremonial wedding for their four-year-old twin children, believing the act would protect them from misfortune. The event, which took ...

TAOS, N.M. — A young boy whose remains were discovered buried at a New Mexico desert compound died during a ritual ceremony to “cast out demonic spirits,” other children found at the remote homestead ...