During the sixth millennium B.C.E., carvers in present-day Sweden etched patterns into the artifact before redecorating it in ...

Were they stored for a planned retrieval that never came? Were they ritual objects used in sacred ceremonies or as grave goods? Did the ancients use them for all three purposes? No one knows.

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

Children are particularly targeted for killing because they can’t repel attacks, and because of beliefs about the potency of ...

This particular object, it is too small for actually a human ... So the institution of government was based on this ritual and ceremonial of being able to consult the powers – the supernatural ...

ritual objects and sacred graves; the Rabbi’s house and the local church. Here, also, is the story of the intrepid explorers, children of the shtetl themselves, who tried to salvage this ...

This Haida mask can be transformed from the outer image of an eagle to the inner image of a supernatural being.This Ritual Mask ... collection of North American objects and photographs.

The axe was not intended for use and would have been a ritual object. It is thought that Neolithic peoples considered certain stones sourced from difficult to reach places, such as high up ...