Across every culture and every age, humanity has imagined gods to rule over death — from Hades in Greece to Anubis in Egypt ...

From the Greek Hades to the Egyptian Anubis, nearly every culture has a god who rules the afterlife. These deities reveal how humanity has always tried to understand death.

From secret tunnels of lizard people to a cursed statue, Andrea Cavallier takes a look at the most bizarre conspiracy ...

Co-curated by Steven Payne, director of the Bronx Historical Society which produced the exhibit; Edwin Pagan, renowned ...

Few stories intertwine history and myth as dramatically as the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb; and the fate of the man who sponsored its discovery ...

But this vision of genius is a poor fit for many great artists, and it tends to obscure what makes them and their work ...

Lamia, one of the lesser-known demons in Greek mythology, is a bit of a shapeshifter, known as a man-eating monster.

A new exhibition in Mexico City explores how the sacred myth that marked the site of the ancient Mexica — or Azetc — capital ...

A clay figurine about 12,000 years old that was unearthed at the site of a prehistoric village overlooking the Sea of Galilee ...

The story depicted on the ˁAin Samiya goblet—an 8 cm tall silver vessel from the Intermediate Bronze Age (c. 2650–1950 ...

Misogyny is supposedly rampant in modern society, but where, exactly, does it lurk? For decades, researchers have hunted for evidence of overt discrimination against women as well as subtler varieties ...

The ancient ˁAin Samiya cup is one of the most remarkable finds of the Intermediate Bronze Age.