May 28 Blog
By: Daniel Ogden
When seeking “hidden” knowledge, ancient Greeks and Romans visited sacred oracles and consulted necromancers, who communed with the dead. The necromancer’s art often involved strange journeys, sleep-and-dreaming rituals and even blood sacrifices—since the ghostly shades were thought to need a tonic of fresh blood to become reanimated. Our modern fascination with exorcism and vampires suggests that necromancy is hardly dead.
Jul 28 Blog
By: Clinton J. Moyer
Editor’s Note: This blog article contains images of human skeletal remains. An extensive cave just southeast of Beit Shemesh, less than 20 miles west of Jerusalem, […]
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