Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...

The island hopping is incredible, but Greece's ancient ruins, ski resorts, wineries, thermal pools, and pristine beaches ...

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Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Nyx is the is the Ancient Greek goddess of the night.  Unlike her sister, Eos, the goddess of the Dawn, Nyx is a mysterious ...

Visitors left anatomical offerings in clay, representing the parts of the body they wished to heal ... due to its ability to shed its skin and regenerate. In Greek mythology, the snake was often ...

In southern Greece, a monumental ancient tomb was discovered to have been used as a burial site for centuries before […] ...

The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and are often used to do evil.

where his body has been carefully preserved for visitors. Carlo Acutis dedicated his life to the service of God. He was three when he took his mother along to Catholic Mass, before her ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie Brøns, who ...

Catholics gathered to witness the body of ‘God’s influencer’ in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, Italy Catholic worshippers flocked to witness the preserved body of a British ...