In the world of ancient Greek stories, some spirits inspired awe, some inspired worship, and some existed mainly to frighten ...

Some gods ruled storms, some ruled seas, and some ruled the night sky. But in the deep, quiet corners of Greek mythology ...

Roman mosaic in ancient Nicaea reveals rare portrait of Lake Ascania as a woman, offering new insight into İznik’s ...

The myth of Persephone or Proserpina explains how Ancient Greece and Rome linked seasonal change with ritual, calendar, and ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

It’s a divine sign in an ancient legend, according to which the god Huitzilopochtli asked a group called the Mexica — who ...