Greek mythology is full of artifacts endowed with supernatural powers, in addition to a myriad of unforgettable gods, ...

Much like many figures in Greek mythology, Atalanta has two different origin stories. In the first, the mortal heroine is the ...

Markings from late Neolithic Greece resembling these classical Greek letters, Delta, Epsilon and Lambda, they argued, could further complicate prehistory's relationship to classical ancient Greece ...

During excavation of a well at a house in western Syria, a lucky discovery turned up an ancient mosaic — depicting the Greek goddess of good luck. Found eight feet below ground in the town of ...

Red lip coloring dates to 3500 B.C. when ancient Mesopotamia’s Queen Puabi (aka Shubad) used a concoction of white lead and crushed red rocks to stain her lips to symbolize her status in power.

Although long gone, the Colossus of Rhodes remains a well-known symbol of the ancient world. Across the centuries, its memory has been kept alive by a variety of media, from poetry to painting ...

The stories that remain of both real and mythical mothers let us know how important they were. Thanks in part to their connection to the life cycle, women in ancient Greece were both symbols of ...

In ancient Greece the great playwrights helped to plant and nurture the seeds of representative government through their characters and plots. By David Belcher This article is from a special ...