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Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

The ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis, now home to Pamukkale resorts, also has to the oldest "Gate to Hell" on Earth. This passageway, once used for animal sacrifices to the Greek god of death Pluto, ...

In Washington DC, USA, Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi of Africa is invited to lead the prayer and praise session as part of the ...

We carefully circle a section of floor cut open ... of Jesus,” the pilgrimage site of Capernaum today is owned by the Franciscans and surrounded by a high metal fence. A sign at the gate makes ...

Perpetua Resources, the mining company planning to dig in the mountains outside McCall, promises to clean up the site — including the damage done by decades of previous mining.

Final performances have been released today for the Melbourne season of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated rock ...

Few movies are as important to the history of color filmmaking as Gate of Hell. Released in 1953, it was one of Japan's earliest films to be shot in color, and director Teinosuke Kinugasa took ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

As of Wednesday, the DDCA had planned to open only three gates, 16, 17, and 7, for spectators but later opened gate 18 due to the overwhelming turnout A working Thursday morning did not stop fans ...

McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...

Elder Kevin R. Duncan, a General Authority Seventy for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered Tuesday’s ...