Because this bread and wine have been made Eucharist ('eucharisted,' according to an ancient expression), 'we call this food Eucharist, and no one may take part in ... This is my body which ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse ... waxes and balms to preserve the body and its spirit for the afterlife. The practice was largely reserved for ...

Shortly after the king's burial, water flooded the burial chamber, damaging the interior and leaving fragments of plaster that bore parts of the Book of Amduat, an ancient mortuary text on the ...

Experts believe flooding forced ancient Egyptians to relocate the pharaoh’s body to the Deir el-Bahri ... to various historical estimates. He was part of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, a period often ...

The sweat of ancient Greek and Roman athletes was sold as a prized commodity ... Both cultures had their own names for this practice: “strigimentum” in Latin for the Romans and “gloios” in Greek.

Archaeologists in Turkey have stumbled upon an astonishing find: approximately 2,000 bronze statue fragments, likely remnants of what was once an ancient recycling center. These bronze pieces were ...

Bookshelves today are heaving with tomes on ancient wisdom and guides to healthy ... that they “provide very little nourishment to the body.” Still, consensus is possible.

In this undated photo provided by Abdelrazek Elnaggar, Emma Paolin, PhD researcher at University of Ljubljana, background and Dr. Cecilia Bembibre, lecturer at the University College London take ...

But a tug of war over referring to the immense body of water off the coast of the ... The 'Hot Tub of Despair,' ancient salt deposits and World War II wreckage Names given to the gulf have little ...