See embroidered scenes from his life on a 500-year-old robe displayed ... Charing Cross. From the National Geographic book Sacred Places of a Lifetime.

Updated in 2017, this text is an excerpt from the National Geographic book Sacred Places of a Lifetime.

This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... scribing a line between sacred and profane, life and death. We are doused, dunked, dipped, sprinkled—and blessings ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... thousands of mummified animals that turned up at sacred sites throughout Egypt were just things to be cleared ...

Did they believe this was a place where the sun and the generous waters met and brought forth life? These and other questions involving the Maya people’s relation to their gods, their sacred ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... DEA/Album Vast amounts of coca, regarded as sacred by the Inca, were used in religious ceremonies.

The tombs evidence elaborate preparations for the next world, in which humans were promised continuing life and pharaohs ... University in Cairo and a National Geographic grantee.

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hawaiian legend holds that taro is the sacred ancestor ... as the staff of life,” says University of Hawaii ...

It is one of Busan's many sacred spaces that visitors are welcome ... It does not necessarily reflect the views of National Geographic, National Geographic Traveller (UK) or their editorial ...