New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting “Armenia,” September 22 2018 – January 15, 2019. The work covers nearly 15 centuries of art, much of it religious in content. The Met’s website states: “This is the first major exhibition… Continue Reading
LiveScience recently posted a news story about archaeologists analyzing found in an ancient Roman city of Capitolias, ocated in modern day, announcing that mosaics depicting everyday life in the town includes written inscriptions representing the utterances of the figures the… Continue Reading
LiveScience.com posted a news story about a “love spell” inscribed in Coptic on papyrus dating to Late Antiquity, currently in the collection of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. While researchers are still debating the purpose of the spell, all agree… Continue Reading
Inquisitr.com posted a fascinating piece detailing discoveries in a Transylvanian cave that could provide emphasis of local nymph worship in the area around around 1300 BCE. The article begins: “Deep in the darkest reaches of Cioclovina Cave in Transylvania, archaeologists… Continue Reading
Ya know, Philadelphia’s a weird place that’s been home to mystics, religious rebels and groups like the Rosicrucians, Theosophical Society and more going WAY back. As far back as the 17th century spiritual dissidents moved to and settled in the… Continue Reading
Occultists interested in books? OLD books? NAH!!!!!!!!!!! Who are we KIDDING! Well here’s an article in the Guardian about the discovery of the remains of the oldest library in Germany, established by the Romans in 50 A.D. The article begins:… Continue Reading
The Daily Mail has hopped onto a story about research being done on what electromagnetic properties Khufu’s pyramid at Giza might have. As it is built of limestone the fact that it has any would seem somewhat far fetched and… Continue Reading
England’s Daily Mail reports on new archaeological finds in Alexandria, Egypt. Their report begins: “A mysterious ten foot (three-metre) long black sarcophagus has been opened in Alexandria, found on the northern coast of Egypt and founded by the legendary leader of… Continue Reading
I think most of y’all will agree that ceremonial magicians, especially of the Thelemic stripe, are stone-bibliophiles. Thus I think at lot of folks will go SQUEE checking out this little video documentary of a facility dating to the 17th… Continue Reading
Simon & Schuster recently published Matthew Kneale’s Rome A History in Seven Sackings in the U.S. The pubisher’s site says: “Novelist and historian Matthew Kneale, a longtime resident of Rome, tells the story of the Eternal City—from the early Roman… Continue Reading