The name Gehenna comes from the Hebrew Ge Hinnom, Valley of Hinnom, and in ancient times, it was known for child sacrifices to appease the Ammonite god Molech.

Scattered about the globe are various locations that scientists believe could be entrances to the underworld, ranging from a volcanic "hellhole" in Iceland to an underwater cave filled with ...

The Ammonite statues will be published in a monograph featuring an in-depth stylistic and iconographic analysis, along with contextual interpretation within the socio-political framework of the ...

The Ammonite religion was part of a belief system similar to other groups in the southern Levant. Milkom, the supreme deity of the Ammonites, was closely associated with their rulers.

Regarding similarities between Ammonite and Moabite religious practice, professors stated: “As far as we can tell, Ammonite and Moabite religion were both polytheistic with a variety of gods and ...

On the hilltop, archaeologists excavated a structure that could be an Ammonite palace or a large residential building, while in the 1960’s, another group of scholars discovered a building or a temple ...

Second, because later texts from the Bible identify Milkom as 'the god of the Ammonites'.” Milkom also appears as part of personal names on two Ammonite inscriptions.

Ammonite, which was partly filmed in Lyme Regis, was inspired by the life of famous fossil hunter and palaeontologist Mary Anning - with Oscar winner Kate Winslet taking on the role. The film's ...

Filmed in the town of Lyme Regis in West Dorset, England, Ammonite is directed by Francis Lee, who was celebrated for his 2017 film God’s Own Country.

For more than 2,000 years, Hinduism, Buddhism and the shamanic Himalayan religion of Bon have venerated Shaligrams – ancient fossils of ammonites, a class of extinct sea creatures related to ...