Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has mandated that girls are not permitted to serve as altar servers in parishes within the Archdiocese of Colombo. “No girls should be invited to serve at the ...

Demir explained that the area contains an altar base for cult statues and two round ... Notably, the remains of a Kubaba-era temple, dating to the Hellenistic period, have been found, further linking ...

They were also fighting the most sophisticated and powerful culture of its time — Hellenism — and its many incursions into Jewish life. Even more impressive is that the Maccabees were not only ...

Turkiye, which has recently made a splash in archaeological circles worldwide with groundbreaking discoveries, continues to ...

During their rule over the Israelites, they shared much of their Hellenistic culture and beliefs with them ... He sacrificed a pig, which was a religiously unclean animal to the Jews, on the altar at ...

The biggest clue for the new unification theory comes from new details about the Altar Stone — a massive bluestone placed inside the inner circle. Pieces of bluestone taken from the Preseli ...

Alexandria was the jewel of the Hellenistic world. Lighthouse of Alexandria by Philip Galle, 1572. Credit: Philip Galle / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons Alexandria, the world-renowned ancient Greek ...

The site, which covers around 10 dunams (2.5 acres), was occupied during the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, indicating a significant olive oil production operation that played ...