As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

The next God of War is potentially heading to Egypt, and these are the gods and goddesses we want to meet when we get there.

Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

Ancient myths have influenced civilizations and can be mapped to zodiac signs. Each sign aligns with a mythological pantheon reflecting its traits, li ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Egypt arguably had one of the most complex sets of gods and goddesses. Ancient Egyptian deities covered many aspects, such as the gods of the underworld, sun, sky, earth, and more. If mythologies ...

Clay tablets at Kurd Qaburstan reveal ancient Mesopotamian culture Artefacts hint at urban life in the Middle Bronze Age city Findings challenge perceptions of ...

First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the Sumerian city of Girsu in modern-day Iraq ... and the other quite surprisingly bearing both Aramaic and ancient Greek. Deftly navigating many ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

The ghommids were furious, and their leader and goddess of the river, Ọ̀ṣun, had had enough. She appeared to the settlers, who were enthralled by her beauty and trembled at her fury.

Life in the ancient Bronze Age city of Kurd Qaburstan, an ancient Mesopotamian site in present-day Iraq, has long been a mystery to archaeologists due to limited research and a lack of historical ...