In historical terms, the Maccabean Revolt was the beginning of the end of the Seleucid Empire. Moral: Don't mess with the ...

My quest to meet a Birsaite led me to a remote village in Jharkhand. There, I had my palm read, and witnessed an unusual ...

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Millions of visitors are expected at Maha Kumbh 2025 in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, where modern technology, including QR codes ...

With questions such as these, current scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis ('polis religion'). In this book Dr Kindt ...

Spanish for "place of the ceiba tree," Seibal had a checkered history. First inhabited in the Middle Preclassic Period around 800 B.C., the city grew until about the time of Christ, when it began ...

Scott Thumma, director of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, told Newsweek: "CA and TX have the largest percent of US population and the most religious adherents...Also the southern ...

Ethno-religious map of Syria In Syria ... Those who don’t know history, are condemned to repeat it. For three decades, Syria has been held together in the iron grip of a ruthless tyrant ...

To quote historian and expert on religious studies, John Dominic Crossan: “Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and ...

Christmas traditions have a long history of religious and secular meanings. “A number of them are from the ancient times and celebrations surrounding the solstice,” says Murray. “When we ...

The Seleucids exerted their influence through Hellenization, the spread of Greek art, architecture, and religion ... editor of National Geographic History magazine. The perfect gift for the ...

Decades ago, as our mainstream culture began rejecting organized religion, with all its flaws ... a professor of chemistry and the history of science at Johns Hopkins, notes, scientism could ...