Lux Ferre

On December 14, 1825 a group of officers led 3000 fully armed soldiers into the Senate Square near the centre of the imperial capital, St Petersburg, hoping to spark a rising in

In 1947, Bedouin shepherds found a jar containing seven old scrolls in a cave in the desolate area of Qumran in Jordan, near the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. They sold

Shortly after its 2003 publication, Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for well over half a year,

A medieval city in Yemen, on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, now called Dhamar. Damear has been an important center of Muslim theological studies since the Middle Ages. According to

A Christian monastic movement in Ireland and Scotland, the Culdees (from Gaelic celi De, “servant of God”) emerged in the seventh and eighth centuries within the Celtic Church. They adopted some elements

Crata Repoa: The Imagined Egyptian Initiation System of Eighteenth-Century Freemasonry Crata Repoa refers to a supposed ancient Egyptian system of initiation described in an anonymous ritual text published in Berlin in 1770.

Among the most prestigious of American think-tanks, and the centrepiece of most recent speculations on the New World Order, the Council on Foreign Relations was founded in New York City in 1921

One of the oddities of American fraternalism, the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo was founded in a train station in Gurdon, Arkansas in 1892, by businessmen in the wood products industry on their

An important system of secret brotherhoods in late medieval and early modern France, the institution of Compagnonnage emerged among journeymen of a variety of French trades as the medieval guild system broke