Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when Egyptologists took a closer look, they were able to piece together how the art form ...

Tibetan ritual dancer Losang Samten – who is also an award-winning visual artist and the spiritual director of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia (USA) – recently worked with ...

Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...

LADAKH, India (AP) — One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the rectangular courtyard of the Hemis monastery. They began a ...

A heap of skulls found in the center of a prehistoric village has revealed evidence of an unusual ritual tradition associated with the dead that appears to have been practiced for centuries, a study ...