Scorpius is a constellation known for its distinctive shape and for being one of the 13 constellations of the zodiac, a belt-shaped area of the night sky that the sun, moon, and planets appear to ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering ... realms were deeply intertwined. The map also includes mythical elements, such as Scorpio-man and Anzu, a lion-headed bird ...

At first glance, this stone recovered from the site of an ancient hillfort in northern ... “[H]e seemed to have identified the constellation of Scorpio in a stone from the Karst.” ...

"And that is how the Ancient Greeks explained that if you see Scorpius, you cannot see Orion and vice versa," she says. To learn more about the Scorpius constellation and the mythology the ...

In Western traditions, the practice of astrology coalesced around an analysis of the zodiac and the constellations along that band. Beginning thousands of years ago in ancient Babylonia ...

(How well do you know the zodiac constellations?) Despite the Greeks’ contributions to astrology, horoscopes were not prevalent in ancient Greece. Instead, the focus was on using the stars to ...