Art, Faith, Sex and Controversy' investigates pop culture’s crypto-religious, uncanny symbols of immanence and transcendence.

Human-shaped flint figurines from 7500 B.C. may reveal how a Neolithic death cult sparked the rise of human representation in ...

Toussaint Santicola Jones "thinks big and his music has big gestures, vivid characters and strong contrasts,” said his thesis ...

The skulls at Shimao foreshadowed the massive human sacrifice that became what Li calls ... a professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford. “Several features were ...

As the friendliest cats adapted to human life ... long before mass sacrifices Still, some evidence suggests cats lived closely with Egyptians even earlier. Julia Troche, an Egyptologist at Missouri ...

Love — human or divine — demands a common good ... Keywords: abraham old testament & art sacrifice John Grondelski John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School ...

Hard to imagine yet that is exactly what happens in Yasmina Reza’s internationally praised play “Art.” What begins ... demonstrating just how fragile human connections can be as Marc ...

Art from this period often depicts lapdogs ... Officially, Romans disapproved of human sacrifice, and the practice would have been controversial under their rule, Green says.

Aside from the screaming, epic battles, human sacrifice and bodysnatching ... no more brain than I have in mine elbows” and “Thou art a boil, a plague sore, loathsome as a toad”.

The best-preserved elite burial in Peru reveals the customs of the Moche civilization, including rituals related to human sacrifice as two ... irrigation networks, and art. Their “complex ...

there is sufficient iconographic and archaeological evidence to suggest these people practiced human sacrifice as part of their rituals. In 2005, archaeologists discovered a burial group ...