For decades, scientists believed the domestic cat first wandered into European life alongside the continent’s early farmers.

This Celtic celebration of fire and fertility culminates in the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man—and the arrival ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

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Celtic cultures dominated the vast majority of Western Europe, Northern Europe, Ireland, and the British Isles for millennia ...

From the ancient seat of the Celtic High Kings to the Mountain ... Newgrange was built by the god Dagda and named for the goddess Boann. Some say that the famous Irish mythological hero Cuchulainn ...

“The Maya regularly buried buildings and rebuilt on top of them,” said co-author Andrew Scherer, a professor of anthropology, archaeology, and the ancient world at Brown and director of the Joukowsky ...

Omar Chakil's stone furniture collection was designed to reference ancient Egyptian gods His 17-piece Transcendence ... Chakil based the designs on Egyptian animal deities that have been ...

In a historic revival of Hellenic worship, a newly built temple dedicated to the ancient Greek gods Zeus and Pan has been unveiled in Arcadia. This marks the first such construction in nearly 1,700 ...

Throughout history, different religions and cultures have revered goddesses symbolizing power, protection, and destruction. From Athena in Greek mythology to Sekhmet in ancient Egypt and Amaterasu in ...

Temple of Greek god Apollo and goddess Athena in Side, Turkey. Credit: Ingo Mehling / CC BY-SA 3.0 Once overshadowed by the more famous Temple of Apollo, the ancient Temple of Greek goddess Athena in ...