Archaeologists discover a bronze belt accessory referencing an unknown pagan cult in Central Europe. An extraordinary find was made by archaeologists from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Masaryk University in the town of Lány, near Breclav in the Czech Republic. It’s a bronze belt from the 8th century AD featuring a depiction of a […]
Religion
Celestine V, the pope who resigned and was imprisoned in a castle for the rest of his life
Times have changed, and social evolution makes it possible that, if in the past access to the throne of St. Peter was in the hands of a dominant caste formed by families of ancient lineage linked to a series of class privileges and economically well-off, today that situation has been democratized, and it is no […]
How a fourth-century bishop preserved the most extensive text on Phoenician religion that has survived to this day
It is shocking that from the people who invented the alphabet and by extension taught the world to write, the Phoenicians, nothing of their literature has reached us except three fragments of papyrus. It is true that some 10,000 inscriptions in stone and fragments of ceramics are preserved, but no literary, historical or other work […]