Mount Hekla in Iceland, known as 'the chimney of hell' by medieval Christians, has been considered a gateway to the ...

Researchers have pieced together the final moments of Jesus, creating a map that they believe shows his journey through ...

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Archaeologists excavating a site since 2010 uncovered an eight-room structure dating back to the First Temple in 8th century ...

Thus afterlife is felt to be a reunion and all of life a preparation for it … Death is not understood as the end of being but rather as the end of doing. As such it is a dramatic break, a radical ...

Medieval Christians claimed that the snow-capped mountain, which stands nearly 4,900 feet, is one of the gates to the nether ...

Another link between Hekla and hell came when the 16th-century German scholar Caspar Peucer claimed the gates to hell were ...

A white prospector who believed the old legends of buried treasure persuaded her to lead him to the secret burial cave of Lobengula. She took the prospector to the banks of the Manyanda River ...

In its purest sense, a green burial—also called a natural burial—entails wrapping an unembalmed human body in an eco-friendly, biodegradable shroud and burying the body in a natural setting in a ...

With a direct cremation, there are no costs for funeral home events or embalming because the deceased is brought right to the crematorium. The cost of funeral arrangements prior to a burial averages ...

The Egyptians—from Pharaoh’s servants to the elders of the land—join Joseph and his brothers in escorting Jacob’s body to Israel for burial in the Cave ... journey to Jerusalem to ...