The discovery of wooden staffs and clay trays near the sarcophagus of King Tut might be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the Awakening of Osiris. As its name suggests, this ritual is ...

In search of ritual / Evangelos Kyriakidis -- Finding ritual : calibrating the evidence / Evangelos Kyriakidis -- History, ethnography, and essentialism : the archaeology of religion and ritual in ...

At the end of the last great Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago, glacial meltwaters surged through an unspoiled wilderness, forming the flood plain of the River Lea. However, the oldest evidence from the ...

Death is a shared commonality of the human condition, yet the rituals that attend it vary significantly across cultures and religions. The one commonality is that while the nature of death itself does ...

In 1922, when Howard Carter ventured to the Valley of the Kings and broke the seal of a tomb that had been buried in the sands of Egypt for over 2,300 years, he was taken aback by the gilded splendor ...