Ancient Canaanite ritual artifacts and 5,000-year-old winepress discovered at Tel Megiddo in Israel, the biblical site known ...

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A metate is a grinding stone common to Mesoamerican cultures, past and present. Corn and other grains are ground against the volcanic stone with another stone held in the hand called a manos. Metate ...

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface: To Lothar / Li Shuicheng -- Introduction: Ritual and Economy in East Asian Archaeology / Rowan Flad and Anke Hein -- Uncovering disguised social ...

A bag of coffee beans would seem out of place at most art exhibits. But at "Ritual Objects: The Radical and The Practical in Art & Design," a bright red bag emblazoned with the black words "Eight ...

A strange collection of objects found along a major pilgrimage route may have been used in "magical rituals" by sorcerers around 400 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced.

Editor's note: Judith Rosenbaum, executive director of the Jewish Women's Archive, interviewed Tamar Paley, an Israeli artist and jewelry designer, about her project, "A Fringe of Her Own: A ...

Imagine finding an ancient artifact so strange that even experts can't agree on what it was used for! That’s the Sabu Disc, a mysterious 5,000-year-old object discovered in an Egyptian tomb. Made of ...

"Tibetan Buddhist art is not only rich in figural icons but also extremely diverse in its symbols and ritual objects. As a first systematic review, Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet is an abundantly ...

Artists create “Tzedek Boxes,” receptacles meant to hold a record of the ways people perform social justice throughout the year. (New York Jewish Week) — When Andrew Mandel dreamt up a new Jewish ...

A metal detectorist in Belgium has unearthed a fragment of a mysterious bronze artifact known as a Roman dodecahedron that is thought to be more than 1,600 years old. More than a hundred of the ...

Elon Musk tweeted a photo that he said showed his bedside table on Monday. Objects on the table include cans of caffeine-free Diet Coke and what appear to be two replica guns. Musk has expressed his ...