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Turkey’s Ancient Underground City Isn’t What Everybody Says It Is
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHalil Ibrahim Sincar/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesArcheologists in Turkey have discovered an...
Ancient letter written by Roman emperor leads to "monumental" discovery
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA letter written by a Roman emperor helped lead a team of archaeologists to an ancient temple that...
Bridges: History of Christmas shows holiday, traditions change over the years
Amarillo Globe-News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoMillions of people around the world rejoice as Christmas approaches. It is a time of family,...
Emperors' persecutions of Christians failed
Odessa American, Texas via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMay 13—ROME, Italy — Christians have been persecuted throughout history and are still getting kicked around in some parts of the world, but their worst tribulations were under the Roman emperors ...
Dale Wyngarden: We need to learn from the past to survive the future
The Holland Sentinel via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe conscience of our country is mired in a new civil war. At its core, the battle lines are drawn...
How Tennessee House Republicans plan to fund their version of the voucher bill | The week in...
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAs lawmakers continue to hash out parameters for a proposed statewide school choice program, House...
This tiny minority of Iraqis follows an ancient Gnostic religion – and there's a chance they could...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLike their ancient ancestors, contemporary Mandaeans revere John the Baptist and consider baptism...
Reason for the season: Why is Christmas on Dec. 25?
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTime to lay a popular myth to rest. You know it. It goes like this: Those naughty Christians co-opted the pagan holiday Saturnalia, commemorated in winter among the Romans, and bent it to their ...
Catholic vs. Christian: Overlap and Differences in the Religions
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAll squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares; the same goes for the Catholic vs. Christian distinction. All Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians consider themselves Catholic.
Was Santa Actually a Badass Who Beat Up a Priest?
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty and Wikimedia CommonsThis last week marked the celebration of the Saint’s Day of Nicholas of...