Ancient megacity residents offered jaguars, golden eagles, and wolves to the gods. By Laura Baisas Posted ... of the most powerful cultural centers in Mesoamerica and the city extended its ...
Known as Hiix Witz, or ‘Jaguar Hill’ in ancient ... separate gods; however, they were all fascinated by the occult. This course compares their magical traditions from a variety of viewpoints, ...
“I don’t think it’s a mere coincidence, they were part of that process of creating a new politics, a new landscape, in which animals and humans coordinated one of the most ambitious ceremonial ...
The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.
It’s dedicated to both the deceased king and Amon, the Egyptian God of War. A 17-metre-tall statue of Ramses II once crowned the temple, though today all that’s left are fragments. Abu Simbel is ...
Other mainstays of their commerce were fish sauce (known in the ancient world as garum ... In their pantheon, four gods stand out: Melqart, the god of the sea, the fearful Baal or Moloch; Tanit, the ...