In the cradle of civilisation, illness wasn’t just a medical problem — it was a supernatural one. That’s why Mesopotamians ...

Tomb art suggests the sky goddess Nut from ancient Egypt might reveal the oldest depiction of our galaxy.

With increasing trends like tarot card reading and astrology apps, psychic services are, once again, becoming a popular tool ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate ... Mars almost got frozen in time and probably still looks a lot like Earth did 3.5 billion years ago," he said. More information: Amanda V.

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

Think Karens and Yelp complaints are a relatively new thing? This ancient discovery proves humans have always loved to ...

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that ...

She did move past that feeling ... Ishtar—a fertility and warrior goddess from ancient Sumer, who “has it all.” Elsewhere, we tour to look at a small statuette of a hermaphrodite from ...

Phaistos where an imposing palace once stood is, perhaps not as well known as Knossos, but a focal point of the history of ...

Both the ancient Sumerians and ancient Chinese believed deities had ... “you know what you’re looking at right away. You’re like, ‘Aha! I get why you did that!’” Will Grunewald is Down East's editor ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate ... Mars almost got frozen in time and probably still looks a lot like Earth did 3.5 billion years ago,” he said.