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 ...

Ancient Canaanite ritual artifacts and 5,000-year-old winepress discovered at Tel Megiddo in Israel, the biblical site known as Armageddon from the Book of Revelation.

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

All five matzoth baking machines in the city of Fastov have been confiscated for industrialization. Praying shawls, phylacteries, Gemorahs and other religious books have now been collected throughout ...

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 ...

When a group of amateur archaeologists began exploring an ancient Roman site in the eastern part of England, they didn’t expect to find anything “spectacular.” “There was nothing to indicate there was ...