Did Shamanic belief systems start with our species? Maybe not. One normal day, back in 2005, archaeologist Leore Grosman made his way up to the cave site at Hilazon Tachtit in the Southern Levant region of Israel. He probably didn’t realise that it would be quite an extraordinary day. Extraordinary because he and his team …

LISTEN IN THE FOLLOWING PLACES: SPOTIFY APPLE PODCASTS AMAZON MUSIC In ancient Egypt, snake symbolism abounds, but what does it represent?  Somewhere, archived away in The British Museum is a green-tinged, oxygen-mottled cobra, fiercely raising its head in attack mode. Carved into it are ladder-like central vertebrae, and some circles, right around where the snake’s …