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Is your knowledge of the Celts a veritable pot of gold, or do you need the luck of the Irish to finish the quiz?
When you’ve been jolted and knocked off balance by some new outrage, remember you always have that still point within you.
A look at the curved oval iconic representation of Shiva Lingam placed on a globular base which is found in the Sanctum Sanctorum Garbhagraha of all Shiva temples has given rise to diverse explanation ...
Mythology, whether Egyptian, Greek, or Roman mythology, has played a role in all our lives as stories, myths and legends that have influenced ...
Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument ...
In true Swift style, she celebrated her victory while decked out in several pieces of particularly symbolic jewelry.
In the hills of southern Etruria, in what is now northern Lazio (Italy), lived the enigmatic Falisci (in Faliscan language ...
While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...
Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved ...
The Rosetta Stone is a slab of ancient stone that bears identical text inscribed in three different writing systems: ...
The objects themselves are "gorgeous": we see much "lively, expressive, dynamic sculpture", from "rudimentary" yakshas and ...
Animals in mythology often carry deep symbolic meanings and appear as powerful figures across cultures. Snakes are widely ...