Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

Loyal readers might recall “ Vol. 126: What the Bible Says About Burnt Offerings,” published in 2022. That study was prompted ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Over the past four years, MDOT archaeologists meticulously processed hundreds of artifacts recovered from the marshy soils surrounding the homestead. The Maryland Department of Transportation stated ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 100,000-year-old burials in a cave, revealing early human rituals and symbolic ...

The Armstrong Auditorium in Edmond is featuring a unique archaeological exhibit regarding life in ancient Israel. The ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains.

The first archaeological evidence of extreme asceticism practiced by nuns was discovered in Jerusalem. A female skeleton, found wrapped in chains during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities ...

This is how the enigmatic skeleton was found, still wrapped in its eternal tools of torture, by a team of archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority as they were excavating the Khirbat el ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the remains of a nun who practised an extreme form of asceticism. Dubbed “The Nun of ...