Some of the oldest ancient temples continue to fulfil their original purpose after thousands of years, continuing their ...

While various forms of post-Christian Judaism today are more centered around ... and all the other elements of ancient, Biblical worship. There was not a complete shift away from liturgical or ...

This mosaic, dating back to around 230 AD, offers evidence of early Christian worship and is the earliest known inscription identifying Jesus as God. Discovered between 2003 and 2005 by Israel ...

Most scientists claim that Romans adopted their gods directly from the Greeks. The reality, however, is more complicated.

What do these people do when they get to him? The worship of an early Christian house church probably centered around the dinner table. They don't necessarily all sit facing forward like in a ...

Although later pushed to the side, women in early Christian communities often owned the 'house churches' where congregations gathered to worship. The status of women in early Christianity has been ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

Researchers believe an ancient shrine or worship site in Hawaii acted “as a sophisticated seasonal calendar.” The heiau, as it’s known in Hawaiian, was reconstructed in 2007 and dates to the ...

Researchers found evidence that an ancient Hawaii place of worship was “a sophisticated seasonal calendar and more.” Photo from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The system helped ancient ...