the pieces of this great puzzle are put together to reveal an intricate and extremely important ritual that involved sacrifice of children, worship of mountains as gods, and elaborate burial ...

The Judaism of the first century was a religion almost entirely centered around the sacrificial worship of the temple. Faithful pilgrims traveled many miles from all around the diaspora to worship at ...

Roman worship was divided into the public and the ... or bronze – and an altar or temple at which to offer prayers and sacrifices. Requests and prayers were presented to gods as a trade: if ...