From amulets and curse tablets to mysterious symbols etched in ruins, archaeology is shedding light on how magic shaped ancient cultures. This video explores fascinating discoveries that show how ...

These sacred texts, written in Ge'ez, a language known only to the Kessim (Ethiopian Jewish priests), hold significant cultural and historical importance.

Occult books are also a big component of Heather Hinze and Madi Hinze’s business. Books are their most popular product, Madi Hinze said, and the two take great care in curating their book selection.

Writing goes back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology and archaeology are now piecing its tale together.

Archaeologists discover a 2,500-year-old tomb in Cairo with intriguing serpent spells, providing new insights into the ancient Egyptian afterlife.

The afterlife as portrayed in the Book of the Dead is one of elaborate and baroque intensity, as full of trials and grotesqueries as an average day in 1550 B.C. must have been—which is about the ...

Among their rigorous preparations for eternity, ancient Egyptians developed an intricate set of religious writings to help the deceased achieve a blessed afterlife in union with the solar god Re and ...

Archaeologists excavating a 3,500-year-old cemetery have discovered an ancient Egyptian "Book of the Dead" filled with spells to guide the deceased in the afterlife.

Archaeologists excavating a 3,500-year-old cemetery have discovered an ancient Egyptian "Book of the Dead" filled with spells to guide the deceased in the afterlife.