The arrival of Islam in the 7th century was a seminal and essential moment in the formation of the Moroccan nation. But before Muslim troops reached Morocco’s borders, the country already had its own ...

Based on ancient beliefs, sacred texts, and scientific hypotheses, the shiny yellow metal either is the dominion of the gods, the brilliant brainchild and deliberate handiwork of divine alchemy, or ...

How many stories are buried just beneath our feet?

The story of Dragons and Serpents is not a scattered collection of myths, but a continuous thread woven through the spiritual ...

Preserved in the margins of ancient literary works are notes that reveal how the Greeks strove to map mythical places onto ...

Visitors to the Getty Villa in Los Angeles—the oceanside site of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection—have good reason to curse Theodosius as they gaze upon the sublime portrait of ...

During a meeting on Monday with Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy, the two officials agreed to deepen coordination on preserving and promoting cultural heritage. Discussions ...

There’s something kind of magical about looking at stuff from the past; it’s like a tiny peek into how people lived, worked, ...

There’s something kind of magical about looking at stuff from the past; it’s like a tiny peek into how people lived, worked, and created long before we were around. Sure, lots of these treasures sit ...

Hey Parents! If you have a mythology aficionado in the house or want your kids to discover Greek mythology, check out Nat Geo Kids Greeking Out! It’s a podcast for the whole family that retells ...

A small bronze sculpture barely twelve centimeters tall representing the bust of a woman, a maenad, one of those female ...

Five units that must occupy the central position of as many lines, called the sacred line. It sounds like military tactics, ...