Much of the ancient town and its modern counterpart of Belkıs now lie under the reservoir created by the construction of one of Turkey's largest dams in 2000.(Hasan Yelken/Images & Stories) It wasn’t ...

Roman gods look familiar for a reason: much of Roman mythology was shaped by Greek influence. This video breaks down the key similarities and differences between major gods like Zeus and Jupiter, Hera ...

Minoan Genii are mythological creatures influenced by Egyptian deities, showing how Bronze Age Mediterranean civilizations ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

On Feb. 2, Día de la Candelaria will mark the end of the holiday season for the Catholic and Latino communities, celebrated with tamales, faith, and family.

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

As the days begin to get longer, thousands gather across Ireland and Scotland to celebrate the return of the light after a ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Shree Amma Yanger Ayyappan, famous forever as Sridevi, would have been celebrating her 60th birthday this year, had she not met her premature end at the Jumeirah Emirates Tower ...

MERCOGLIANO, Italy (RNS) — Inside a church just outside Naples, people known as femminielli gathered for La Juta, a centuries ...

POLICE are investigating the death of an elderly woman whose decomposing body was discovered inside a house along Torenia Avenue, Edinburgh 500, Chaguanas, on Wednesday afternoon. The woman has been ...

The Colossi of Memnon, a pair of statues each depicting the seated Amenhotep III (r. ca. 1390–1352 B.C.), once stood at the first pylon, or gateway, of the pharaoh’s enormous mortuary temple in Thebes ...