When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

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Human sacrifice was apparently a normal part of ... It is one of the thousands of ancient mysteries that, at this late hour in human history, we will probably never be able to satisfactorily ...

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Officially, Romans disapproved of human sacrifice, and the practice would have been controversial under their rule, Green says. Some Roman writers believed it was going on before conquest ...

Archaeologists in Ecuador have uncovered a mysterious pre-Columbian burial of a pregnant woman with missing limbs, sparking theories of ancient rituals and human sacrifice. With a mix of Manteño and ...

Bodeli (Gujarat), Mar 10 (PTI) In a suspected case of human sacrifice, a man murdered a five-year-old girl by slitting her throat and offered her blood on the steps of a temple in Chhotaudepur ...

Human sacrifice was widespread in the premodern world as a way to appease deities ... but instead seeks to honor life without the need for destruction and abuse. Steven Mintz is professor of history ...

From clay tablets to electronic tablets, technology has played an influential role in shaping human knowledge. Today we stand on the brink of the next knowledge revolution. It is one as big as — if ...

Human rights are rooted in the ancient ideas of civility ... Reza Behnam is a political scientist specializing in the history, politics and governments of the Middle East. He contributed this article ...