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As drums echo beneath Mount Olympus and torch-bearing worshippers sing hymns to Zeus, an ancient tradition comes alive each summer in northern Greece. For more than three decades, followers of the country's pre-Christian gods have gathered for the Prometheia Festival, reviving ri

Africa's young population often finds itself facing aging, autocratic rulers. Unwilling to settle for democratic rituals alone, many are searching for creative new ways to shape their future.

In some parts of the world, the probability of rain rises with every day it doesn’t rain, and communities in these places are more likely to carry out rain-making rituals

Footballers are known for their eclectic matchday rituals: Lionel Messi likes to drink maté with teammate Rodrigo De Paul at exactly 9.30am, while Harry Kane always dons the left side of his kit first. These candid photos show the 2026 World Cup’s elite players finalising their m

Roughly 27,500 years ago, a 15-year-old boy was brutally mauled by a bear in Arene Candide in what is now Liguria, Italy. The attack tore through his jaw, neck and left shoulder. He was dying, but he was not alone in his final moments.

Professor Carola Lorea of the University of Tübingen's Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology has published a comprehensive academic study on the Matua, a community of 50 million people scattered across India, Bangladesh and 32 other nations in the wake of evictions and f

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these ritualsI remember interviewing a North Atlantic right whale expert years ago. He was a practical, science-minded man. But as we discussed a female whale

Long before scientists began studying them in the lab, mind-altering substances were already being gathered from plants, fungi and even animals for use in rituals, healing practices and mental health treatment. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now managed to