A severed pig’s head left outside the Green-Wood Cemetery was apparently a gift to the gods, but neighbors said the swine shrine was simply an assault on their senses. The festering pig cranium was ...

Ireland once had its own indigenous legal system, called Brehon law, originally written between the 7th and 8th centuries. Beginning as All Saints Day on May 13th, the Catholic Church sought to make ...

Animal sacrifices are surging in Queens, with chickens, pigs and rats being tortured, mutilated or killed in “twisted” religious rituals in parkland surrounding Jamaica Bay, The Post has learned. In a ...

Slaughtering a pig for winter is still as common an experience in many parts of the world as attending a Super Bowl party is here. Seattle has certainly seen animals killed for pig roasts, barbecues, ...

Buildings at the Inca site of Tambo Viejo, on the south coast of what is now Peru, were constructed with a very special kind of sub-flooring — sacrificed guinea pigs. The Inca empire was one of many ...

Archaeologists working in the legionary cemetery of Legio—base of the Sixth Ironclad Legion in the Jezreel Valley—have uncovered a shallow pit containing nothing but the jaws of at least thirteen ...

BISSAU, June 28 (Reuters) - Villagers fought with machetes while sharing out meat from a pig sacrificed at a circumcision ceremony in Guinea Bissau, killing two people and injuring three, a government ...