A hilltop site in Milan, Ohio, located on a bluff overlooking the Huron River, was likely a prehistoric ceremonial site for "Early Woodland" people 2,300 years ago. (Brian Redmond, Cleveland Museum of ...

In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...

In Australian Aboriginal cultures, the night sky is a book full of ancient stories illustrated with constellations unfamiliar to most North Americans. And for Aborigines, the figures represented by ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a colossal Maya cosmogram at Aguada Fenix, which serves as a 3,000-year-old map of the universe etched directly into bedrock. This discovery, at the largest ancient Maya ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

IN THE beginning, there was light. Then, perhaps, a point of darkness. More dark spots appeared, the light circling them before falling in like water down a drain. These would have been our universe’s ...

Ancient cosmology relied on a blend of fuzzy science and superstition. That all began to change when Copernicus came along, but for a long while, it was a mysterious universe ...

When the Nag Hammadi codices were discovered in Egypt in 1945, the world gained access to a body of writings that challenged some of the most deeply rooted assumptions in Western religion. Among these ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A curious prehistoric site on a hilltop in northern Ohio may reflect the spiritual cosmology of ...