Serpent like monsters are constant across mythologies around the globe, and this one is up there with the most terrifying. A ...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a remarkable 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus featuring a rare depiction of Greek ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in mosaics ...

King Midas is the stuff of legend. Ancient Greek tales tell of a Phrygian ruler granted the power to turn everything he ...

The funerary stele of Mnesagora and Nikochares, an ancient Greek marble relief from Vari, near Athens,is a stunning example ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

The gods on assuming various forms in this mortal world could in no way escape death They propitiated Ashutosha Shiva and requested his help in keeping death at bay Shiva took the crescent moon from h ...

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However, normally, people referred to the scarab as Ra, the creator of the universe, one of the most important gods in the Egyptian pantheon ... on the back of a serpent, called a naga.

A stone head that spent decades gathering dust on a wall has proved to be an Egyptian statue from an ancient tomb. The statue fragment was one of hundreds of pieces, from a fossilised shark tooth ...