I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, captivated as he waswith the creatures of myth. That desir ...

Mexican pyramids are a key feature of ancient Mesoamerican architecture. While they share some similarities with Egyptian ...

God Surya can be called the only god in Hindu religion who can be seen and prayed to in daily life The Surya is depicted as having a body as shiny and radiant as pure gold He is believed to be a golde ...

Given limited tools to control the elements, peoples across the world devised ornate ceremonies (and the occasional blood sacrifice) in hopes of pleasing and appeasing fickle gods who could ...

She is Sekhmet—"the one who is powerful"—the embodiment of the fiery eye of the sun god Ra, but now she is ... His grandfather and father had expelled Mesopotamian invaders known as the ...

When we see the Earth as ‘a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam’ what do we learn about human significance? ‘Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.’ From Pale Blue Dot (1994) by ...