The practice of finger-cutting among the Dani tribe of Indonesia is indeed real, albeit increasingly rare. When grief strikes the Dani people of Papua, Indonesia, women express their sorrow through a ...

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An excavation of a dried-out lake has unveiled 550 bronze artifacts and skeletal remains from over 3,000 years ago, shedding light on an ancient ritual. These artifacts, discovered in the Papowo ...

EL RENO Okla. (Reuters) - Just over a year ago, tribal elder Gordon Yellowman watched on the TV news as a mile-wide tornado roared toward the homes of his Cheyenne-Arapaho people in Oklahoma. Sirens ...

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Two thousand years ago, ancient Egyptians were sipping mugs of a potion that caused them to enter an altered state of consciousness, in hopes of divine connection and healing. Archeologists made the ...

Entire families were sacrificed in Korea about 1,500 years ago in rituals to honour royalty, according to a new analysis of ...

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people — but not ...