Epstein Secrets

not be possible to know for sure that a culture wor- shipped gods until we can read their names—that is, until the literate societies of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, some 5000 years ago. Those early empires had both secu- lar and religious hierarchies, with priestly elites and some- times a god-king

behavior. They, too, stress religion's social component. "Religion is a particular form of a larger, social symbolic behavior," says archaeologist Colin Renfrew of the Univer- sity of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. So archaeologists explore early religion by excavating sites that reveal the beginnings of

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behavior. They, too, stress religion's social component. "Religion is a particular form of a larger, social symbolic behavior," says archaeologist Colin Renfrew of the Univer- sity of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. So archaeologists explore early religion by excavating sites that reveal the beginnings of

ot be possible to know E for sure that a culture wor- shipped gods until we can read their names—that is, until the literate societies of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, g some 5000 years ago. Those 2 early empires had both seen- 1 lar and religious hierarchies, with priestly elites and some- times a go

behavior. They, too, stress religion's social component. "Religion is a particular form of a larger, social symbolic behavior," says archaeologist Colin Renfrew of the Univer- sity of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. So archaeologists explore early religion by excavating sites that reveal the beginnings of