Its name derives from an ancient Kongo word for spiritual leaders ... (Photo: Tom Franks, United Kingdom, Finalist, Professional competition, Portraiture, 2025 Sony World Photography Awards ...

Two-thousand years ago, Rome was an all-powerful empire and Pompeii was one of its prosperous ... Voodoo roots are in the ancient religions of Yorubaland, Dahomey and Kongo. Infused with a major dose ...

However, it's essential to recognize that the term "empire" is a foreign concept, and its meaning has evolved. While ancient Chinese texts during the Sui Dynasty (581–618) did use a term ...

A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near Hattusa, capital of the lost Hittite Empire. The ancient city—in what is today central Türkiye—was ...

New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland. Although the region is known ...

UK photographer Zed Nelson's four-continent project, highlighting humanity's complex relationship with nature, earned him ...

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They say it indicates women were valued members of the ancient society. A team of archaeologists on Thursday said they had unearthed the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman in Caral ...

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Thanks to “Andor,” the Galactic Empire is no longer just an aesthetic or a force of expendable, faceless bad guys to stand behind a cackling evil sorcerer. It is not just a symbol of fascism ...

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