Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

True crime continues to flourish as a genre, but stories about cults are uniquely compelling. There has been no shortage of cults over the years, and documentaries and docuseries help contextualize ...

President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around ...

Hidden beneath an ancient temple in Assur, Iraq, archaeologists have discovered key evidence of the Cult of Ishtar's origins.

They were called "the sheets of Shirley" by local residents and were thought to be part of a nationwide cult that may have had a couple thousand followers. It was considered quite the “odd thing,” a ...

President Donald Trump’s cult of personality is reaching a whole new level in his second term. New York Times reporter Peter ...