Workers building a railroad found a 1,000-year-old altar—surrounded by human skulls

The remarkable object was created 1,000 years ago in Mexico.
CNN

Man ransacks altar at St. Peter’s Basilica, knocking over candelabra worth thousands of dollars

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on X ...
Greek Reporter

Altar With Skulls and Offerings Discovered in Ancient Capital of Toltecs

An altar with skulls and bones offerings found in Toltec Tula could help researchers better understand the ancient capital’s ...
National Catholic Register

Pope Francis to Altar Servers: Jesus Is With You in ‘That Act of Love Which Is the Eucharist’

The Holy Father spent much time before and after the liturgy to greet and bless the tens of thousands of pilgrims from his popemobile. Pope Francis greets tens of thousands of altar servers packed in ...

Community sought to help find remnants of historic altar at Lone Fir Cemetery

Qingming, pronounced “Ching Ming,” also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, will begin at 11 a.m. on April 4 and include a ...
Artnet

Unassuming Slab Is Identified as Long Lost Medieval Altar

A stone slab in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is more than it seemed. The renovated Tomb where Jesus is thought to be buried, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of ...

Ancient 1,000-year-old ceremonial altar surrounded by ‘decapitated’ skulls reveals grim human sacrifice ritual

A HORRIFYING ancient ceremonial altar has been dug up with ominous human skulls dotted around it. Experts believe the four ...