Archeologists have discovered 30 tablets at the bottom of an ancient well, each engraved with curses intended to harm the recipient. According to Haaretz, the curse tablets had been chucked into a ...

Hades, the god of the underworld; an abduction; a mysterious ritualistic cult that still remains shrouded in mystery, aka the Elusinian Mysteries and the love of a mother for her lost daughter – this ...

A giant cave that might have helped serve as the inspiration for the mythic ancient Greek underworld Hades once housed hundreds of people, potentially making it one of the oldest and most important ...

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What happens after we die? Various religions tend to rely on a certain moral equation: If you are good in this world, the next world will be kind to you; but if you are bad in this world, you can ...

Almost everyone enjoys a boat ride on a calm river. But in the realm of religion, there was one boat ride that no one wanted to take, but everyone was bound for. This was the cruise in pagan antiquity ...

HARTFORD — Clever composers have been turning the most unlikely subjects into fascinating musicals over the decades. Shows such as an unsinkable ship hitting an iceberg and going down ("Titanic") or a ...