The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, also known as the Artemesium, was constructed in the mid 6th century B.C.E. It was located in Ephesus (modern Turkey), and was considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Jainsm has a set of five vows: nonviolence, truth-speaking, non-stealing, no sexual immorality and non-attachment to worldly things.
Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula or turtle plastron, which were used for pyromancy, a form of divination, in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty.
The Rigveda is one of the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. It is one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language.
The Yajurveda is the Veda primarily of prose mantras for worship rituals. An ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, it is a compilation of ritual offering formulas.
A codex known as the “Yuta Tnoho” that belonged to the Mixtec culture in the 1500s B.C.E. is the earliest historical record of psilocybin use in human history.
Zoroastrianism was the state religion of three Persian dynasties, until the Muslim conquest of Persia in the seventh century C.E.
Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization
The Dreaming is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs. It is used to represent Aboriginal concepts of Everywhen during which the land was inhabited by ancestral figures, often of heroic proportions or with supernatural abilities.
