Experts believe the money left at the location was “devil’s money,” an offering to pagan gods. The worship site likely had ties to summer and autumn equinoxes thanks to the discovery of seasonally ...
I spent many childhood holidays with my grandparents, in a pebble-dashed house in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, North Wales. The village ...
They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...
Frommer's describes Grand Anse as "the granddaddy" of Grenada's 45 beaches, but that's an understatement. This two-mile stretch of creamy-white sand overlooks a sheltered, azure-hued bay where ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a stash of 1,300-year-old gold and silver coins offered as "devil's money" at a rare medieval cult site in the Netherlands. The discovery gives a rare insight into ...
To get Christianised, people in the region were compelled to renounce their gods and stop their ritual of offering “devil's money” at pagan cult sites. Remarkably rare hoard of 404 coins ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of gold and silver coins offered as diobolgeldæ, or “devil's money”, at a medieval cult site in the Netherlands, shedding more light on the rituals of ...
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