Bronze Artifacts Discovered at Bottom of Etruscan Well Bronze statuette MARZABOTTO, ITALY—According to a Discover Magazine report, a team from University of Bologna found a trove of artifacts, including bronze statuettes, a bronze plaque, and two human skeletons, when they finally reached the bottom of an Etruscan...

This old Anglo-Saxon recently took an etymological journey in the direction of Greece. My own ancestral roots are Protestant, but I have more recently been connected through friends and family members to Orthodoxy. Protestants almost never use the word liturgy, but Orthodox people can’t stop talking about it. So I did a theodic deep dive into how those Normans (Anglo-Normans) introduced...

Modern English people are victims of something that happened almost 1,500 years ago - Æthelberht of Kent (King Æthelberht I) married Bertha, a Frankish princess and daughter of Charibert I, King of Paris. But I get ahead of myself. The word holy stems from Old English hālig, derived from hāl (whole) and tied to hǣlþ (health). To be healthy is to be whole—and what is...

Bronze Age Hoard Uncovered in Czech Wetland Bronze artifacts before cleaning KOJETÍN, CZECH REPUBLIC—Europe Says reports that archaeologists recovered a hoard of bronze objects from an ancient wetland outside of Kojetín in central Moravia. The rare and exceptional discovery was made while a team from...

Unique Statue Found in Western Turkey SARDIS, TURKEY—Turkish officials announced that a colossal 2,500-year-old marble statue was uncovered at the ancient Lydian capital of Sardis in western Anatolia, Türkiye Today reports. The larger than lifesize figure—one of the earliest examples of monumental...

Rare Native American Vessel Unearthed at Former Spanish Mission Indigenous vessel with scorch marks on the exterior GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA—According to a statement released by the Florida Museum of Natural History, archaeology students uncovered an exceedingly rare, fully intact Native American pottery...

I will be a father soon. That thought has been sitting with me for a while now. Not the logistics. Sleep schedules are going to be a nightmare, but I know enough to change diapers and warm up bottles. The real weight comes from the bigger picture. How do I raise a kid in a tradition that does not hand out rulebooks? Heathenry is different from the religions I grew up around. There is no Sunday...

Why Did Egyptians Link Baboons and Ibises to the Moon? Sculpture of Thoth as a baboon ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND—According to a statement released by The University of St. Andrews, new research may have finally solved the mystery of why ancient Egyptians associated the moon god Thoth with ibises and baboons. It was not out...

Megalithic 'Giant's Tomb' Uncovered in Sardinia Giant's Tomb at the Carrarzu Iddia site, Bortigali, Sardinia BORTIGALI, SARDINIA—Finestre Sull’Arte reports that an archaeological survey conducted by Italian authorities located a previously unknown monumental tomb at Carrarzu Iddia in central-western...

Newly Decoded Masons' Marks Reveal Clues About Ancient Libyan Gate Features July/August 2026 Secrets of the Serpent Is a Native American origin story embedded in Ohio’s colossal earthwork? Read Article Timothy E. Black...