For more than two millennia, the death and burial of Macedonian king Alexander the Great have been shrouded in mystery. He perished in 323 B.C.E. after suffering from a baffling illness for 12 days — ...

In her survey, Berners reports that it was widely known that in Cumbria some 34 men, ten women and 16 children had been killed by a huge, pike-headed fish, the “dregpike”. Allegedly almost three-times ...

A city centre building steeped in culture and history has been abandoned. In the shadows of the Metropolitan Cathedral on Mount Pleasant, you used to be able to find a once-grand building called the ...

Etruscan civilization had a major influence on the Roman Empire, including on its architecture, clothing, religious practices ... morphed into the later Roman goddess Minerva. Even the demigod heroes ...

Arriving in August in a new city in the Northern Hemisphere should be a well-judged exercise: quieter, as most holidays are ...

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

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

The ancient city of Teos sits on the western coast ... One that stood out depicted two fighting cupids, figures of Eros, the Greek god of love, whose imagery is related to Dionysos, the Greek ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs ... Scientists named the new wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis, partly for the sea monster from Greek mythology that stirred up wild ...

Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy and director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, is the author of “Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War.” Sixteen years into the ...