A couple was surprised when they discovered a hidden room and a suitcase full of ritual and "satanic" objects in the attic of the new home they recently purchased. In a series of now-viral videos ...

Making unique Jewish crafts can transform Passover holiday celebrations from ho-hum to memorable. The new book “Jewish Threads,” along with other books and Internet sites, can help. BOSTON (JTA) — To ...

What does it mean to make a ritual object? What does it mean to make a queer ritual object? How might personal experience mold the interpretation and use of ritual objects? Explore those questions ...

A ritual cave has been discovered beneath the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza. Archaeologists found more than 150 objects relating to ritual practices in the cave, which they said had been untouched ...

Gold and silver Dharma Wheels inlaid with gems (Qing Dynasty: 43.5 cm high and 22.5 cm wide). Most Tibetan Buddhist ritual implements and sacrificial objects were cast in gold, silver or copper, in ...

Chest Lid with Masonic Painting (1825–1845) (image courtesy American Folk Art Museum, gift of Kendra and Allan Daniel, all images courtesy the Bullock Texas State History Museum and the American Folk ...

A metate is a grinding stone common to Mesoamerican cultures, past and present. Corn and other grains are ground against the volcanic stone with another stone held in the hand called a manos. Metate ...

Jewish Queer Ritual Objects with artist Nicki Green and scholar Merissa Nathan Gerson What does it mean to make a ritual object? What does it mean to make a queer ritual object? How might personal ...

"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...