Middle East
Extreme Drought may have created conditions for Islam to emerge
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Research suggests that drought may have been an instigator in the shift to Islam as a religious practice within the Arabian peninsula.
Africa
New insights into Philistine religion and their enigmatic culture
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New research challenges previous held consensus on the Philistines, their origin, and the structure and establishment of their culture in the Levant.
Europe
Well-preserved Roman Temples with female deities found in Gelderland
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A Roman sanctuary temple complex found in the Netherlands contains inscriptions to the Jumones, a plural female divinity.
Paganism
Pilgrimages: a visit to the Temple of Diana
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In our new Pilgrimages series, TWH’s editor-in-chief, Manny Tejeda-Moreno, explores the famous Temple of Diana Nemorensis in Nemi, Italy.
Middle East
Mitanni City emerges from the Mosul Reservoir
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The initial finds of the excavations of the ancient Mitanni Empire city of Zakhiku that was revealed due to the drought in Iraq in 2021.