According to medieval sources, the Norse gods were actually real people who were descended from King Priam of Troy.

Legend has it that when the Statue of Zeus was completed, the king of the gods announced his approval via a lightning bolt.

When New York-based jeweller Sarah Ysabel Narici was designing her take on a hoop earring for her brand Dyne, she looked to ancient Rome and Greece. “Myths about power, transformation, human desires, ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently uncovered a hidden harbor at an ancient temple connected to Cleopatra VII – an unexpected find for historians.

Myth and Marble,” an exhibition of the Torlonia Collection at the Kimbell Art Museum, has been thousands of years in the ...

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets ...

Across ancient civilizations, law often carried a strangeness that feels almost unbelievable today. Weird rules shaped the ...

The marble sculpture, discovered at Chersonesos Taurica in Crimea in 2003, has been identified as a woman named Laodice ...

Hundreds of coins that depict Cleopatra VII have been discovered in an Egyptian temple. The archaeologist who led the team ...

The Sun played a powerful role in the spiritual life of the ancient world from the Greek titan Helios and the Roman god Sol to the mystery cult of Mithras and the Syrian deity Elagabal Over time Sol I ...

A bombing delay enabled rescue of some objects, but archaeologists fear the wider loss of antiquities from the many cultures ...

Siren — In Greek mythology, a siren is a half-woman, half-bird creature that lures sailors to their watery deaths by way of ...