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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pressed against a wall in a back corridor of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a stone slab bore testimony only to the graffiti etched on it by multitudes of pilgrims ...

A HORRIFYING ancient ceremonial altar has been dug up with ominous human skulls dotted around it. Experts believe the four heads were decapitated to serve as a grisly human offering around 1,000 years ...

Archaeologists excavating a medieval monastery in Spain unearthed a unique 1,900-year-old Roman altar dedicated to a Basque deity, photos show. Photo from Juantxo Agirre via Aranzadi Science Society ...

Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have excavated a ceremonial altar surrounded by human remains and ritual objects on the territory of the Tula archaeological ...

Frankincense, myrrh, and… cannabis? Archaeologists have discovered traces of weed on an ancient Israelite altar, suggesting that getting high was a religious ritual for the Hebrew people. The ...

The great altar was placed in 796 A.D. as a marker at the end of the royal ball court of Cancuén, the site of one of the largest royal palaces ever found, where the ancient city's ruler would play the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the altar illustrates the painted panels of red, black and yellow, which would have depicted a person wearing ...