Description

Forgotten Ancient Rites presents the latest archaeological discoveries (2024 2025) about long hidden traditions. From sorcery transmitted over twelve millennia in Australia to botanical offerings buried beneath a Mesoamerican ballcourt, the book shows how rites shape societies and transcend time. Through varied examples - a funeral feast in Kerma culture, horse sacrifices on the Eurasian steppe, caches of devil's money in the Netherlands or the mysteries of Stonehenge - it highlights the diversity of beliefs and the continuity of symbolic practices. Each section analyses the social, political and therapeutic functions of rituals and explains how certain traditions were adapted, syncretised or abandoned. This concise yet richly anecdotal book reminds us that the sacred and the symbolic remain central to human experience. Publisher : Five Minutes - Collection : ESSENCE. For readers interested in anthropology, history or spirituality, it offers a captivating dive into vanished worlds and invites reflection on our own relationship with ritual.