Q: Is it appropriate according to halakha (Jewish law) for soldiers to use amulets with invocations intended for protection in war, and for others to use amulets for protection from danger or success ...

Scientists used CT scans to ‘digitally unwrap’ the approximately 2,300-year-old undisturbed mummy of a teenage boy of high socioeconomic status. The body was equipped with 49 amulets of 21 different ...

Given how important our Sun is, our ancestors can be forgiven for seeing it as a god. And even now that we know what it actually is and how it works, it’s not much of a reach to think that the Sun ...

An ancient, two-sided amulet uncovered in Cyprus contains a 59-letter inscription that reads the same backward as it does forward. Archaeologists discovered the amulet, which is roughly 1,500 years ...