Archaeologists have discovered a medieval underground tunnel running beneath a German village, which was the likely site of cult rituals. Researchers stumbled upon the tunnel during excavations that ...

Cults have existed for almost as long as recognized human society. While cults have evolved over the years, many practices ...

For over a thousand years, people from across the Mediterranean flocked to the temple of Eleusis in Greece to take part in a ritual so secretive that anyone caught talking about it was immediately ...

A team of archaeologists has managed to reconstruct the details of an ancient cult of the ancestors which, according to historical sources, served as a unifying element between Greek settlers and the ...

The Dionysian fresco, dubbed the "house of Thiasos" by archaeologists, was unearthed from a banquet hall amid excavations to Insula 10 Regio IX in Pompeii. (all images courtesy Parco Archeologico di ...

Hidden deep in the woods near Michigan State University lies a portal to a world far from the bustle of campus life. This ordinary clearing in the woods has been the host of cult rituals, celebrations ...

During recent excavations in Regensburg’s old town, German archaeologists uncovered a temple dedicated to the god Mithras. Because the building was originally constructed in wood, only a few ...

It is almost impossible to imagine the realities endured by victims of ritual abuse: multiple abusers with systematic motives coordinated with the sole purpose of perpetrating and maintaining a cycle ...